- After already having 11 charges wiped away, Ethan Ungerboeck is now seeking to strip more damaging details from the record
- We reveal the contents of a court file so shocking it carried an official warning
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He was caught with the sickest abuse material imaginable - yet the disgraced former Scots College schoolboy Ethan Tyler Ungerboeck is making a brazen bid to argue down his depraved crimes.
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Ungerboeck, whose obsession with sadistic, sexual abuse of children and the torture of animals began when he was a child himself, is campaigning to get off scot-free.
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Two years have passed since police caught 19-year-old Ungerboeck at his parents' $6million mansion in Sydney's east with a cache of images and videos so vile they must have traumatised the anti-child exploitation officers tasked with reviewing them.
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The hoard of thousands of images and videos shows Ungerboeck's taste for the humiliation, pain, terror and suffering of others - including babies, cats and dogs.
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Police found a USB drive cluttered with filth and horror on a Deepcool computer tower he had owned since 2016 when he was a student at the $56,000-a-year school in Bellevue Hill.
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The rest of his vile collection, which celebrates cruelty, shame and brutality to an extent it would move any normal person to tears, was on a Telegram account and an HP laptop in his Maroubra bedroom.
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The sheer volume of horror stockpiled by Ungerboeck, and the depravity, suffering and cruelty it inflicted on adults, children and animals, was laid bare in a lengthy statement of 'Agreed Facts'.
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They were so shocking, the court file carried a warning.
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Two weeks ago, the now 21-year-old secured a plea deal that slashed 17 charges to six.
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Now, he's trying to whittle them down even further.
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Two years have passed since police caught 19-year-old Ungerboeck at his parents' $6million mansion in Sydney's east with a cache of images and videos so vile they must have traumatised the anti-child exploitation officers tasked with reviewing them
Ethan Ungerboeck (above, with his lawyer) now intends to dispute the facts of the case
On Monday, prosecutors told NSW District Court Judge Stephen Hanley that 'the facts are now disputed' and that 'the parties are seeking to resolve other matters in dispute in ongoing negotiations with the DPP'.
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This means that Ungerboeck - currently free on bail on charges that carry maximum penalties of between three and 15 years in prison - is likely seeking to expunge some of his perversions from the record.
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Portrayed by his lawyers as a 'bullied' young man with a 'big brain', this scion of a wealthy Sydney family is not short of cash to get away with this.
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The facts state that police found Ungerboeck 'in possession of more than 4,000 images and 150 videos constituting child abuse material', plus 'at least 50 images and 60 videos constituting bestiality material or animal crush material'.
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The child abuse material that Ungerboeck was charged over consists of images and videos of mostly naked female children ranging in age from a one-year-old up to 17.
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Much of the material is too graphic to describe in detail.
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The facts cite an 18-minute, five-second video titled 'Dead cats on Sesame Street Volume 2 – f***ed up media productions', a compilation of kittens being tortured and killed.
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The methods included animals being hanged, beaten, drowned, crushed, nailed, burned and placed in a blender.
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One of Ungerboeck's videos discovered in the Maroubra bedroom of his parents' house (above) was a compilation of kittens being tortured and killed
Police found a USB drive cluttered with filth and horror on a Deepcool computer tower Ungerboeck (pictured with his lawyer Michael Bowe at court) had owned since 2016 when he was a student at Scots College in Bellevue Hill
Australian Federal Police investigators happened upon Ungerboeck during a broader probe into online groups trading images of children engaged in sexual acts.
These included the group 'Harm Nation' which extorts young girls into committing and filming self-harm that is then posted online.
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They are part of 'The Com', a loosely connected online community involved in cybercrime, child sexual abuse material, right-wing extremism and sextortion/coercive violence.
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Ungerboeck engaged in online chats mainly with a 'Gore Group', boasting to the cops when they arrested him that the groups were 'invite-only, you know, similar to drug dealers.
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This debauched creature must by now think the justice system is one great lark: get caught, then have mummy and daddy hire an expensive lawyer.
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Inevitably, judges lose their patience - as happened earlier this month when Ungerboeck's high-profile solicitor Michael Bowe sought his client's tenth delay in court.
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Judge Susan Horan responded with open disbelief at Mr Bowe's request for a further delay for his client, and Ungerboeck clearly had no financial impediment to seeking more of his learned counsel's valuable time.
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But after Her Honour declared that 'ten committal hearings is ten too many', Mr Bowe still managed to do his deal with the prosecutor and get 11 charges withdrawn in exchange for his client pleading guilty to six.
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Ungerboeck's predilection for images of children and animals being tortured and sexually assaulted reveal a taste for sadism and pain inflicted upon the defenceless
Ungerboeck (right, with his sister when they were children) is on bail in the beachside suburb of Maroubra where he is preparing to challenge the 'Agreed Facts' of the police brief
On Monday, a sentencing hearing was set for February 17.
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Yet while Ungerboeck appears intent on fine-tuning the legal system in his favour, this reporter can't help but wonder: what do the detectives who investigated him make of it all?
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And on the other side of the screen sits a police officer tasked with the unimaginably grim but necessary job of examining it.
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Another alleged child sex offender was, coincidentally, in the same court with Ungerboeck on Monday and was eventually arraigned on multiple charges after returning from a South-East Asian holiday last year.
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In a machine-gun delivery, he rattled off a series of 'not guilty' pleas to Judge Hanley.
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Following his arrest, and speaking generally about child sex offences, AFP Detective Superintendent Luke Needham described how hard law enforcement worked to protect children across the country and overseas.
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'Every action online leaves a trace and the AFP, along with its state, Commonwealth and international partners are working tirelessly to identify anyone involved in the harm of children, no matter their location or nationality,' Det Supt Needham said.
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'Children are not commodities to be used for the abhorrent gratification of sexual predators.
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The ex-Scots College boy is pictured with his two lawyers at court on one of the ten occasions he tried to get his case delayed
Ungerboeck has complained that he was 'bullied' at the elite $56,000-a-year school
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Among Ungerboeck's rotten stash that he wants to scrub from public gaze may be this detail: 'The offender was found to have used Telegram to record himself rapping along to an existing rap song, the lyrics of which he changed in a way that constituted child abuse material.
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Ungerboeck pleaded guilty to possessing child abuse material with intent, using a carriage service to make available child abuse material, using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend, possessing child abuse material, possessing bestiality material and possessing animal crush material.
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He has previously escaped a conviction for assaulting a teenage girl he bit and burned with a cigarette, citing his poor mental health and cannabis use.
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Whether he is finally sent to prison this time, or walks back to his luxury home on a community corrections order, remains to be seen.
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