Social Network Disgust
April 20th, 2011 | by Jen |A Brisbane Facebook “troll” who vandalised tribute sites for dead children with offensive comments and child porn wants bail pending an appeal of his jail term.
Bradley Paul Hampson yesterday launched a bid for bail from his cell at Brisbane Correctional Centre, Wacol.
He is applying for release pending the outcome of an application to appeal his 12-month jail sentence handed down last month in the Brisbane District Court.
Court documents reveal his bail hearing is scheduled for May 3 in Brisbane’s Supreme Court.
Hampson, 29, of Tarragindi in Brisbane’s south, posted pictures of penises and wrote offensive messages on the two sites in February last year.
On one Facebook tribute site for the 12-year-old boy, he wrote “woot I’m dead” across an image of the dead child.
He also altered a photo of the boy’s face inside a woodchipper and made it appear blood was coming from the machine.
On another, he wrote sexually explicit comments implying he was responsible for raping and killing the eight-year-old girl.
“My definition of pleasure … listening to her ribs crack,” he wrote. “I got mad … so I murdered her.”
To post his comments, Hampson used the name of a Bundaberg man who he claimed to have gone to school with.
Hampson said the man whose identity was bullied by other students at his school.
During Hampson’s sentencing the court heard the man was distressed his name was used to make the offensive comments.
The court also heard when detectives examined Hampson’s personal computer, they found almost 200 images that depicted children as the victims of abuse and sadism.
Taking into account seven-and-a-half months Hampson has already served behind bars, he will be out of prison in September.