People who view child porn and other objectionable material will be caught, even if they don't download or copy the images, a Government department charged with tracking down internet perverts warns.
Internal Affairs' Censorship Compliance Unit manager Steve O'Brien said the department was part of the global fight combating the sexual abuse of children for the manufacture and distribution of objectionable images. He said people could still be traced, even if they only looked at the images on an internet site.
Mr O'Brien said people in New Zealand who got involved in the nefarious online world child porn could be tracked and when caught would face the full weight of the law.
The warning comes after a judge handed down what is believed to be the longest sentence yet to an internet paedophile in Northland.
Kaeo farmer Malcolm Pritchard, 66, was last week jailed for three years and four months on 10 representative charges of having objectionable material and 10 of possession for supply.