Teacher's massive child porn stash 'was homework'

A 66-year-old former art teacher has been jailed for his cache of 215,000 child pornography images and abusing a boy in his care almost 30 years ago.
Richard Ufnalski, a former justice of the peace, claimed he required the images for his thesis which "discussed the belief that adult pornography models are groomed to demonstrate ... erotic fantasies and erotic behaviour".
The County Court heard the images depicted children in sexually explicit situations.
In sentencing, Judge Phillip Coish said he rejected that Ufnalski required the images for "artistic, scientific or educative purposes".

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Ufnalski pleaded guilty to one charge of possessing child pornography and two charges of indecent assault.
Judge Coish said Ufnalski, who immigrated from Poland in 1965, had also indecently assaulted a boy in his care in 1982 while at his Mildura home.
Psychiatrist Ian Joblin described Ufnalski as having "serious delusions of a grandiose nature" and that there was "evidence of distorted logic".
Ufnalski was an art teacher in several Victorian schools in the 1970s and 80s before being pensioned out from the Education Department in 1986. Since then, he has not worked but attempted to create a Casey-Cardinia Fine Art Institute in Melbourne's outer south-east.
Ufnalski was jailed for two years and must serve one year before being eligible for parole.
Outside court, Detective Sergeant Geoff Beams said: "Perhaps the closure of this will bring other people forward.
"What people don't realise is that it's not just the possession of images - at some point in time, there must have been a child who has been a victim. That's why we pursue these matters with all our resources."