A man from Queensland purging a perpetuity imprisonment for the 2010 kidnapping and the murder of a Bundaberg schoolgirl admitted to having written stories of “sadistic” and “depraved” children behind bars.
Warning: This story contains content that readers can find disturbing.
Allyn John Slater was sentenced in 2012 for killing Trinity Bates, eight years old.
He took the daughter of his room while she was sleeping, strangled her, and let her drown in a drain of rainwater in February 2010.
Trinity Leigh Bates, known as Trinny, was found in a drain near his Bundaberg house in 2010. (Police QLD))
Trinity’s body was found the next day.
Slater, then 22, was sentenced to life after pleading guilty to his murder.
He had to become eligible to request parole from February this year.
But Thursday, the Brisbane District Court heard corrective service services rose its cell to the Wolston Correction Center in October 2023, finding a notebook under a mattress containing the evaluation equipment of written children.
“Graphic” and “depraved” entries
Crown prosecutor Michael Gawrych said Slater wrote the material in the first person and “settles up as the protagonist”.
At least 35 pages of the 88 -page notebook represented “sexual and violent abuse of children”.
“The stories … described the accused taking and removing their parents’ children,” he said.
“The novel also represented the murder of someone who tried to intervene.”
Describing the material as “graphic”, “depraved” and “extreme”, Mr. Gawrych said that the offense was “very serious”, since he was in prison because of his conviction for killing a child.
“Maybe that couldn’t get worse in terms of offenses described,” he said.
The court also heard the Slater notebook contained drawings.
Gawrych said that when the police spoke to Slater of the offense last year, he told them that he was not aware that it was illegal to create such equipment.
The Correctional Center Wolston is based in Wacol, southwest of Brisbane. (ABC News))
The 35 -year -old man pleaded guilty of having returned and owned children’s operating equipment.
His defense lawyer, Terry Morgans, submitted that his client had made full admissions to the police and pleaded for early guilt.
He said that although the characterization of the writing was graphic, there was no suggestion that it had been distributed to others and “did not imply the victimization of a child”.
The judge holds `real concerns ”
By condemning Slater, judge John Allen KC declared that his offense was disturbing, “in particular in the light of the nature of the murder which led to your imprisonment”.
“The material demonstrates a continuous perverse interest in sexual violence towards children and raises real concerns as to whether you, in the light of your history, continue to present a real risk for children if and when they are released in the community,” he said.
“”I have no doubt that the Conditional Liberations Commission carefully examines the nature of this offense when you are considering a future request for your parole.“”
Judge John Allen KC described Slater’s offense as disturbing. (ABC News: Marc Smith))
He recognized that Slater had created “sadistic” equipment for his consumption only.
Judge Allen said any penalty he had to be competing with the life sentence that Slater was already serving.
He granted Slater a two -year sentence and postponed the date on which he was eligible at the request for parole at the end of August 2025.
