A lawyer from Port Pirie has been struck off for making indecent films of children and storing the images on his laptop.
Anthony Curt Power, 30, was jailed for four months in March last year after he admitted setting up hidden cameras in the toilet of a house he shared with friends, in a toilet inside the church where he was a youth group leader, and in the bathroom of a church camp. Police found more than 4,000 images and over 600 videos of child pornography on his computers. He pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent filming and two counts of possessing child pornography.
The South Australian Supreme Court ruled last week that Power’s name be struck from the Roll of Legal Practitioners. Power, who surrendered his practising certificate in March 2010, asked the court to consider the time that had already passed and asked for a suspension as opposed to being struck off.
However the court held that Power’s actions involve “a serious breach of the law” and “the public could not have complete confidence in a person with such serious and recent convictions”.
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Anthony Curt Power, 30, was jailed for four months in March last year after he admitted setting up hidden cameras in the toilet of a house he shared with friends, in a toilet inside the church where he was a youth group leader, and in the bathroom of a church camp. Police found more than 4,000 images and over 600 videos of child pornography on his computers. He pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent filming and two counts of possessing child pornography.
The South Australian Supreme Court ruled last week that Power’s name be struck from the Roll of Legal Practitioners. Power, who surrendered his practising certificate in March 2010, asked the court to consider the time that had already passed and asked for a suspension as opposed to being struck off.
However the court held that Power’s actions involve “a serious breach of the law” and “the public could not have complete confidence in a person with such serious and recent convictions”.