A MAN accused of making child pornography and dropping it in household letter boxes pleaded not guilty in the Wangaratta Magistrates Court yesterday.
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Steve Wilson, previously known as Steve Leigh, of Williams Street, Wangaratta fronted magistrate Dan Muling on 16 charges relating to child pornography, stalking and harassment between April and October, 2007.
The shaven-headed Wilson represented himself and donned a wig, cap and sunglasses to disguise himself at the lunch break.
The court heard how Wilson, 38, allegedly produced and distributed CDs containing child pornography to homes in and around Franklin Street, and labelled them with the names of various people he was stalking at the time.
Police informantConstable Travis Carroll said police first became aware of the pornographic material when a resident handed a disk to the police in the middle of 2007.
It was one of many surrendered in the following weeks, with Constable Carroll describing pictures contained on the CDs as “children in various positions and acts”.
“The contents were several images that anyone would describe as child porn,” he said.
Police raided Wilson’s home in October, 2007 and seized a large number of CDs, DVDs, magazines, notebooks and electronic equipment relating to the
charges.
Constable Carroll said an analysis of a computer hard drive taken from a study in the home revealed images of children in a “pornographic or suggesting manner”.
“It also contained movie files of a female apparently not 18 engaging in fellatio and what appears to be young teenage females in the showers,” he said.
“There was a picture of a naked female that would be under 10 years old.”
Further evidence tended to the court included Wilson’s 2007 diary which contained information about a Wangaratta woman who Wilson is accused of stalking.
Constable Carroll said the diary contained 117 entries relating to the victim, including information about what she was wearing, her likes and dislikes and her movements.
Wilson was also charged with four counts of using postal services to harass his victims, after allegedly sending pictures of his genitals to four women at their Wangaratta workplaces.
At the close of proceedings yesterday, the court played a police interview in which Constable Carroll asked Wilson if he ever looked at child pornography on his computer.
“Definitely not,” Wilson replied.
He was told he would be charged with stalking and asked to give consent to have his fingerprints taken, to which he again responded: “definitely not”.
“I’m not a criminal, I’ve never been charged with anything,” he said.
The case is expected to continue until the end of the week, with the informant to due to the stand again this morning followed by E-crime and handwriting experts.
