Australian novelist Craig Silvey sentenced to seven months for child exploitation offences
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Craig Silvey has been sentenced to seven months in jail for possessing and distributing child exploitation material, with the term backdated to 22 October. The judge described his offending as extremely serious, saying the children depicted were real and faced lasting trauma.
The 44-year-old Australian novelist pleaded guilty in May after police raided his Western Australian home in January and seized electronic devices. He is eligible for parole. Silvey is known for *Jasper Jones*, which sold more than 500,000 copies, and *Runt*; since his arrest, publishers and bookshops have withdrawn his work and some schools have removed *Jasper Jones* from teaching lists.
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In short
- Craig Silvey received a seven-month jail sentence.
- The sentence is backdated to 22 October.
- Some schools have removed *Jasper Jones* from teaching lists.
How this story developed
- 28 minutes ago Silvey has been jailed for seven months, backdated to 22 October, after a judge called his offending extremely serious; he is eligible for parole, while some publishers, bookshops and schools have withdrawn his books.
- 33 minutes ago Craig Silvey, the Australian novelist behind *Jasper Jones* and *Runt*, pleaded guilty in May to possessing and distributing child exploitation material after police seized electronic devices from his Western Australian home in January.
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Originally published by BBC World as “Popular Australian children’s author jailed over child exploitation offences”.