A predator who paid about $60,000 to watch live footage of children being sexually abused will spend more than a decade behind bars.

The 67-year-old man from Elizabeth, in Adelaide’s northern suburbs, was sentenced in court on Monday.

He was first flagged by investigators in 2020 after they were tipped off about a number of international remittance payments the man had made over a number of years.

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That is when his home was raided and data storage devices containing child sexual abuse material were seized — he was initially charged in 2021 with four counts of accessing and possessing child abuse material.

But “further analysis of his laptop identified records of online communications between the man and people in the Philippines discussing the streaming of sexual abuse of children,” the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said on Tuesday.

He was charged again, this time with two counts of encouraging an offence, namely sexual activity with a child outside Australia, and one count of using a carriage service to transmit indecent communication to a person under 16 years of age.

He was also charged with one count of using a carriage service to access child abuse material, one count of using a carriage service to access child pornography, police said.

The 67-year-old man was found guilty after a jury trial in February and March 2025.

His full sentence of 10 years, one month and 25 days’ imprisonment, with a non-parole period of five years and nine months, was backdated to September 2021, when he was first taken into custody.

His case “was a reminder that offenders should not think they could hide behind their computers and stay anonymous because they were directing and watching abuse from a distance,” AFP Sergeant Stephen Hegarty said.

“Everything you do online leaves a trace, and we are working tirelessly to identify it.”

Our goal is to protect children wherever they live and ensure anyone trying to harm them is brought before the courts.”

AUSTRAC, which tipped off the South Australia Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (JACET) said that digital money trails “unmask” offenders “revealing not only who they were, but how they operated.”

“Financial transactions are helping us piece together the full picture of offending and connect perpetrators across international borders,” AUSTRAC National Coordinator of Law Enforcement Markus Erikson said.

“We must dismantle this vile trade and ensure that the system enabling profits becomes the tool that catches the offenders.”