In one of the first legal cases in Australia involving the social phenomenon of ‘sexting’, a Sydney pool cleaner was handed down a custodial sentence of almost 2 years jail for sexually harassing two women by way of explicit text messages. ..

A mother who secretly took her son to live overseas in the middle of a custody dispute says she did so to stop the boy’s father abusing him, asking a jury “what would you risk if you thought your little boy was in danger?”..