A 53-year-old Perth man has been sentenced to 16 months' jail for possessing tens of thousands of images of child pornography featuring children as young as 12 months.
Steven Thomas Kiernan pleaded guilty to possessing the images, which were found during a search of his home and his computer in March.
He maintained he had downloaded the material to try to find evidence of his own abuse when he was a child in a South Australian orphanage.
District Court Judge Robert Mazza said he found that difficult to accept.
Kiernan will have to serve eight months before he can be released.
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