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The actions of a vigilant JB Hi-Fi employee led to the arrest of a Corrimal pensioner on child pornography charges, a court has heard. The Wollongong worker had just finished transferring data from Paul McKenzie George Ferguson's old Samsung Galaxy S5 to his new Samsung Galaxy S10 on the morning of March 13 when she discovered more than one hundred child abuse images as she carried out a routine check to see if the transfer had been successful. At lunchtime, she and another colleague attended Wollongong Police Station during their lunch break to report what they had seen. Police went to Ferguson's house later that afternoon and carried out a search warrant, which included seizing and searching his mobile phone.
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An employee at a store in Wollongong, south of Sydney, found more than images of young girls on year-old Paul Ferguson's Samsung Galaxy on March 13, after he asked her for help transferring pictures to the new device. She gave the phone back to Ferguson before her and a co-worker reported him to police on their lunch break. Ferguson pleaded guilty to one count of possessing child abuse material in court on Tuesday. Ferguson admitted that he downloaded and possessed the images, and said there were 'thousands' of other photos on his phone. The child abuse material was mainly adolescent girls between the ages of 10 and In court, Ferguson's lawyer Paul Paine pointed out the police fact sheets didn't include a breakdown of the severity of the material.
