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It was an ongoing conversation about methods of sexually abusing babies and toddlers that brought Jonathon Lester Edwards to the attention first of US authorities and then of the Australian Federal Police.

Edwards, a 34-year-old chef from Bairnsdale in eastern Victoria, had been speaking with an American woman named Nadia in an online paedophile chatroom when the US-based National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children started monitoring their conversations.

Following a tip-off from the US authority, AFP investigators raided Edwards' home in December 2021 and, across five devices, found at least 6,388 files containing videos and images of child sexual abuse, organised by gender and age of the children exploited in the material.

"You said, 'I'm a really normal guy outside of the bedroom with good friends, family and a job, part of sports clubs … but behind closed doors we could live our dreams."

At a plea hearing in the Latrobe Valley County Court on November 1, after which Edwards was remanded, prosecutors outlined depraved discussions between him and others in online encrypted paedophile chatrooms.

Crown Prosecutor Jake Morrison told the court Edwards' offending had flow-on effects, fuelling a market which exploited children around the world.

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