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Former MP Terry Martin's hypersexuality was an illness that had to be treated as a mitigating factor in considering his sentence on child sex charges, a judge in Tasmania said yesterday.
Justice David Porter said the two crimes committed by Martin were directly related to the side effects of a drug he was prescribed to treat his Parkinson's disease.
Martin, who had been in custody since the two guilty verdicts were returned last week, walked from the Supreme Court in Hobart yesterday after receiving a 10-month suspended sentence.
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Martin was found guilty of having sexual intercourse with a young person under the age of 17 years and producing child exploitation material.
Child sex charges: former MP set free as judge deems Parkinson's drugs to have caused hypersexuality
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