澳大利亚儿童文学作家克雷格·西尔维因持有和传播儿童剥削材料被判处七个月监禁。
Australian children's author Craig Silvey has been sentenced to seven months in jail for possessing and distributing child exploitation material.
法官海莉·科曼在宣判时称西尔维的行为“令人作呕”且“有辱人格”。
In handing down her sentence, Judge Hayley Cormann called Silvey's actions "repulsive" and "degrading".
今年1月，西尔维在警方搜查其位于西澳大利亚州的住宅并没收数台电子设备后被捕。5月，这名44岁的作家对持有和传播儿童剥削材料的罪名认罪；10月，他被收监等待判决。
In January, Silvey was arrested after police raided his home in Western Australia and seized several electronic devices. In May, the 44-year-old pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material and in October he was jailed pending his sentencing.
身为三个孩子父亲的西尔维最著名的作品是曾获奖项的青少年小说《贾斯珀·琼斯》和儿童读物《小狗兰特》，这两部作品后来都被改编成了电影。
The father-of-three is best known for his award-winning young adult novel Jasper Jones and children's book Runt, both of which were later made into movies.
据《西澳人报》报道，科曼周一表示：“你毁掉了数千人的信任并背叛了他们，你让整个社区感到失望。”
"You have devastated and betrayed the trust of thousands of people, and you've let entire communities down," Cormann said on Monday, according to WA Today.
警方表示，在他们上门搜查西尔维住宅时，他正开着讨论儿童剥削的网上聊天界面。
Police said Silvey had online chats, in which he discussed child exploitation, open at the moment they turned up to raid his house.
法庭得知，西尔维在聊天中将自己形容为“思想极其开放”且“痴迷于禁忌”。
In them, the court heard, Silvey had described himself as "extremely open minded" and "obsessed with taboos".
他曾与一个色情网站的其他用户讨论过他对年仅五岁儿童的性兴趣，侦探在他的设备上发现了其他成年人虐待儿童的图片和视频。他最初被控四项罪名，但检方随后撤销了两项。
He'd discussed his sexual interest in children as young as five with another user of a pornography site, and detectives found images and videos of other adults abusing children on his devices. He was initially charged with four offences, but prosecutors later dropped two.
检方表示，西尔维助长了将图片中的儿童置于受害境地的“虐待循环”，并主张必须予以严惩。
Prosecutors said Silvey contributed to the "cycle of abuse" victimising the children in the images, and argued a harsh sentence was required.
然而，该作家的辩护律师表示，他并没有“对儿童的性兴趣”，而是在寻求“最堕落的材料”作为一种“情感”自残形式。埃洛伊丝·巴克表示：“他的行为暂时缓解了心理焦虑。”
However, the author's defence lawyer said he did not have a "sexual interest in children" and was seeking out "the most depraved material" as a form of "emotional" self harm. "His behaviour provided temporary relief from psychological agitation," Eloise Barker said.
她表示，西尔维对自己的违法行为表现出了真诚的悔意，而且他的高知名度以及随之而来的媒体监督（导致他的前伴侣和孩子搬迁到外州）本身就已经是一种惩罚。
She said Silvey had displayed genuine remorse for his offending, and that his high profile and the resulting media scrutiny - which lead to his former partner and children relocating interstate - was already a form of punishment.
科曼法官并未接受她的许多辩护理由，并表示西尔维的犯罪行为极其严重。
Judge Cormann did not accept many of her arguments, and said Silvey's offending was extremely serious.
据《澳大利亚人报》报道，她表示：“这些儿童，即此类犯罪行为的受害者，是真实存在的且饱受创伤……这些虐待行为给他们带来的后果是长期且非常非常痛苦的。”
"These children, the victims of this type of offending, are real and are traumatised… the consequences for them from these abuses are long lasting and very, very traumatic," she said, according to The Australian.
西尔维被判处七个月监禁，刑期自10月22日起算。他符合假释条件。
Silvey was sentenced to seven months in jail, backdated to 22 October. He is eligible for parole.
西尔维的成长小说《贾斯珀·琼斯》售出超过50万册，并于2010年被全国顶级出版机构授予年度图书奖。
Silvey's coming-of-age novel Jasper Jones sold more than half a million copies and was awarded the Book of the Year Award by the nation's peak publishing body in 2010.
这部以西澳大利亚州为背景、以两个十几岁男孩为主角的小说，还入围了国际都柏林文学奖和迈尔斯·富兰克林文学奖的决选名单。
The novel, set in Western Australia with two teenage boys as the main characters, was also shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Awards and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
它后来于2017年被改编为由托妮·科莱特和雨果·维文主演的电影以及舞台剧。
It was later turned into a film starring Toni Collette and Hugo Weaving in 2017 as well as a stage play.
以11岁女孩与她的流浪狗在澳大利亚内陆的冒险为主题、2022年出版的《小狗兰特》是他的另一部广受赞誉的作品。该书也于2024年被改编为电影，由塞莱斯特·巴伯出演。
Another of his acclaimed works is 2022's Runt, about the adventures of an 11-year-old girl and her stray dog and set in the Australia outback. It was also adapted for film in 2024, featuring Celeste Barber.
自他被捕以来，出版商和书店已将他的作品下架，一些州的学校也将贾斯珀的书籍从教学书单中移除。
Since his arrest, publishers and book shops have pulled his works from shelves while schools in some states have removed Jasper's books from teaching lists.