James Anthony Gwynne appeared in Campbelltown District Court on Friday after pleading guilty to grooming a child for sex and using a carriage service to send and receive child abuse material.
The court heard the 31-year-old used the encrypted messaging platform Whisper to message multiple adult and underage users about his twisted fantasies involving bestiality and incest.
Gwynne sent the vile messages, many of which are too graphic to detail, between February and April last year while he was based at the Waverley Police Station in Sydney‘s east.
The 31-year-old looked dejected and attempted to evade the media as he left Campbelltown Courthouse with his parents.
On Friday, NSW Police confirmed Gwynne resigned from the force on August 23, more than six months after he pleaded guilty.
He was busted after investigators from the Human Trafficking Investigators Task Force posed as a fictional 15-year-old American girl on Whisper.
Gwynne initiated a conversation with the ‘teen’ in April 2022, and asked if she would ‘sit on a cute Australian cop’s face’.
The ‘teen’ made it clear she was only 15 years old before the cop sent her a photo of his erect penis next to his NSW Police uniform shirt.
Days later, police searched Gwynne’s home and Waverley Police Station and found several items he had been wearing in the images sent to the ‘teen’.