Rajko Dobre, a close friend of Rajko Ignjatic and Djuro Djurdjevic appeared in Central Criminal Court, for sentence. He was accused and had pleaded guilty to charges of importing child pornography into Australia almost a year ago, to the day. He arrived without the support of any friends, flanked only by his legal team of Vasic and Jankov.

Magistrate Bartley sentenced Dobre to 24 months full time imprisonment with a non parole period of 16 months. He was escorted from the courtroom to his new prison home by 2 police constables without saying a word or showing any sign of remorse for his crime.

Magistrate Bartley delivered his judgement, taking over an hour to emphasise the key circumstances of the case which included.

• graphic details of the abhorrent material contained on the DVD's that involved sexual violence on top of  child pornography. The magistrate emphasised that the materials were so depraved and could not be tolerated by any civilised community. Magistrate Bartley mentioned how 31 children, some as young as 8 years of age were corrupted and exploited with sado masochistic heinous acts.
• Users of Child pornography create the market and are therefore complicit in the exploitation and corruption of young children, not capable of defending themselves.
• Child pornography is not a victimless crime. In Dobre's case the magistrate felt that Dobre has displayed such moral turpitude that immediate imprisonment was called for.
• It was important to send a message to the general public that would act as a general deterrent. If you are a user of Child pornography and are detected you are likely to face imprisonment.This was Magistrate Bartley's paramount consideration in handing down his sentence.

Magistrate Bartley did not accept Dobre's version of events. Bartley said that Dobre knew that he was importing child pornography. He had tried to conceal the DVD covers in his wallet to avoid detection by customs.

According to Bartley the statements Dobre gave to a clinical psychologist were inconsistent with the agreed facts. Dobre had shown little contrition or remorse and had attempted to spin a version that would minimise his guilt.

It was highly likely that the only reason that Dobre had pleaded guilty was because of the strong prosecution case and the inevitability that he would be found guilty.

Whilst justice was served today, we are still unsure why Djuro Djurdevic Rajko Ignjatic and Bishop Irinej and the Serbian Orthodox Church fought so hard to have this criminal avoid punishment.