Dean Jason Milley has been jailed after he was caught messaging teenage boys online to procure child sex abuse material.
Milley bought vapes online for a 12-year-old boy in exchange for nude images.
He will be eligible for parole in three years.
A paedophile with a criminal history dating back to 1994, has been jailed again after he was caught messaging teenage boys online, offering money and vapes in exchange for child sex abuse material.
Dean Jason Milley was 53 when he was most recently caught sending and asking for explicit videos from teenage boys on the website Daddy Hunt.
The Latrobe Valley County Court heard the Longwarry man bought vapes online for a 12-year-old boy, who was in Western Australia.
The court heard the boy had told Milley he was 14.
"In exchange for child abuse material which he made and sent you, you provided him with vapes purchased from Alibaba," Judge Diana Manova told the court.
"When you sent him the vape receipt, the boy sent you child abuse material of himself.
"Suffice it to say they're highly sexualised and depraved conversations with the young boys in which you clearly demonstrate your desire to meet them and engage in sexual activity."
In sentencing, the court heard Milley grew up in a religious family and was sexually abused as a child by three people in his life.
"You're prepared to inflict that type of abuse on other children, in effect perpetuating what was done to you over and over again," Judge Manova told the court.
"At the age of 21, you were required to declare your homosexual contacts to a church congregation, which then voted on whether you could continue to take communion.
"You were then enrolled in the Exodus program, a church-run form of group conversion therapy aimed at altering homosexual behaviour.
"Your participation in the Exodus program resulted in you moving away from the church for two decades."
After his offending in 1994, which included sexual penetration of a child under 10 and of a child under 16, he was placed on a good behaviour bond, and his participation in the church-run conversion practices were seen as a rehabilitation exercise.
Conversion practices have been outlawed in Victoria since 2022.
"You were sentenced to the bond in part on the basis that you were rehabilitating yourself from your homosexual proclivities by engaging in the Exodus program," Judge Manova said.
"That comment by His Honour was clearly a sign of the times, and thankfully much has changed for gay people since then."
Milley was in court again in 2006 for possession of child abuse material and again in 2018 for offences against a nine-year-old boy with a disability.
He had previously been an aircraft engineer with Qantas, before becoming a truck driver, a call centre operator and working in hospitality.
He was last employed at a recycling business in 2023.
Judge Manova referred to Milley's diagnosis of paedophilic and hebephilic disorders in 2018 by forensic psychologist Jeffrey Cummins.
She said his past offending and consistent failure to comply with reporting obligations as a registered sex offender showed he did not have good prospects for rehabilitation.
"Given this history, your counsel's submission that your prospects are not great is an understatement," she told the court.
"When you were assessed by Jeffrey Cummins in 2018, you told him you did not wish to return to prison ever again.
"This desire has not prevented you from re-offending time and again, almost as soon as you're released.
"This pattern suggests there is an element of inability or unwillingness to control your actions."
Milley was charged by the Commonwealth with using a carriage service to transmit, solicit and cause child abuse material to be transmitted and using a carriage service to groom a person under 16 years.
On those charges, he was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison.
The Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions also charged him with failing to comply with reporting obligations and contravening a prohibition order.
On those charges, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison, which he has already served in pre-sentence detention.