Award‑winning Australian children’s author Craig Silvey jailed over child exploitation material
澳大利亞獲獎兒童文學作家克雷格·西爾維因兒童性剝削材料入獄
Jasper Jones writer sent multiple messages about his sexual desire for young boys, Western Australian district court hears Warning: This article contains graphic content Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The award‑winning author Craig Silvey sent multiple messages about his sexual desire for young boys and was caught with explicit images of children and adults. The young adult novelist was jailed on Monday for seven months after pleading guilty to distributing and possessing child exploitation material earlier this year. Continue reading...
澳大利亞知名作家克雷格·西爾維因傳播和持有兒童性剝削材料被判處七個月監禁。法院認定其行為嚴重且令人不安，其作品已被下架並移出閱讀書單。
報道以法庭審理為主線，可練習細節定位：罪名、刑期、查獲物品、聊天內容與法官表態分散在各段，適合做信息檢索與同義替換訓練。注意區分已定罪的兩項罪名與五月撤銷的兩項指控，這是典型的推斷與排除題考點。結尾出版商與書單的變化提供了事件後果的因果鏈，可練因果梳理。
The award‑winning author Craig Silvey sent multiple messages about his sexual desire for young boys and was caught with explicit images of children and adults.
The young adult novelist was jailed on Monday for seven months after pleading guilty to distributing and possessing child exploitation material earlier this year.
The 44-year-old was found with numerous category one photos and videos on his laptop and mobile phone when police raided his Fremantle home, the Western Australian district court heard.
Silvey, a father of three, also engaged in an online conversation with another user on a pornography website, where his handle was Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy.
In the chat, Silvey described himself as a “Fremantle guy” before telling the user: “You sound amazing … we have very similar interests, would love to chat more; do you have Signal or Session?”
The pair moved to an encrypted messaging app, where he said he was “extremely open-minded and obsessed with taboos” and preferred boys older than five before adding that “eight was the perfect age”.
“I want to make out with little ones,” the author said in one message.
Silvey, who has been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin literary award and the International Dublin literary award, also wrote he was “drooling” over a sexually explicit photo of a naked man and boy together.
Judge Hayley Cormann said it was very serious and very disturbing offending.
“This offending involves children and it is destructive and it is devastating,” she said.
The popular author is best known for his 2009 coming‑of‑age novel, Jasper Jones, considered a modern Australian classic and adapted into a feature film and several stage productions.
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He has also been widely recognised for other books, including Rhubarb, Honeybee – which won the Australian Indie Book Award in 2021 – and the children’s novel Runt, which was also made into a film.
The publishers Allen & Unwin and Fremantle Press, which released Rhubarb, stopped promoting his books after Silvey was charged and most of his titles were removed from reading lists across the country.
Two charges of producing and possessing further child exploitation material were dropped in May.
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來源：The Guardian · theguardian.com