{"id":34606,"date":"2021-09-17T15:40:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T03:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=34606"},"modified":"2021-09-21T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T01:00:28","slug":"real-estate-agent-pleads-guilty-to-child-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/real-estate-agent-pleads-guilty-to-child-exploitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Real estate agent pleads guilty to child exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOTO: Bayside real estate agent Paul Torok.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Bayside real estate agent has pleaded guilty to child exploitation charges after he and the former boss of a well-known charity filmed themselves having sex with a 16-year-old schoolgirl before circulating video footage.<\/p>\n

In the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday, former Haileybury school teacher Paul Torok, 51, admitted to meeting the teenager on a social networking site called Skout in 2019, before contacting his friend, former Reclink chairman David O\u2019Halloran, 65, and sending him images of the girl.<\/p>\n

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He said to O\u2019Halloran: \u201cI have a proposition. I have a friend who want [sic] to be with two men. But she\u2019s young.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe younger the better,\u201d O\u2019Halloran responded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Torok picked up the victim from her school on November 20, 2019, and then drove her to a St Kilda house, where both men had consensual sex with the teenager.<\/p>\n

They both used mobile phones to film the sexual encounter and later sent videos to other associates.<\/p>\n

Torok\u2019s home in Port Melbourne was raided by detectives from the Bayside sexual offences and child abuse investigation team on September 2, 2020, when they seized his phone and a small quantity of drugs.<\/p>\n

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O\u2019Halloran, who was also charged with unrelated child exploitation offences, was sentenced in April to a minimum of nine months in prison, but has appealed his sentence.<\/p>\n

The court heard on Thursday that Torok had about 190 consensual sexual partners in the year before his arrest, and was a member of a swingers group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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