PHOTO: KAREN PASCOA man who used Southland Hospital’s Wi-Fi to send himself child exploitation images told police he looked at pictures of young naked children daily. In the Invercargill District Court yesterday, Kenneth Warren Hawkins (77) admitted 18 charges of possessing objectionable material over a decade from 2011. The police summary tells how it was while he was an inpatient at Southland Hospital last year that Hawkins used the Wi-Fi to send two images from one of his email addresses to another. On September 1 last year, a police search warrant was executed at Hawkins’ Invercargill home, where 49 electronic devices were found. When questioned by police, Hawkins admitted to viewing images daily.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 24, 2022 22:35 UTC