The Latrobe Valley County Court heard that Milley used the website Daddy Hunt to contact a 12-year-old boy in Western Australia, who told him he was 14. Milley bought vapes from Alibaba for the boy, and in return received explicit videos. 'In exchange for child abuse material which he made and sent you, you provided him with vapes purchased from Alibaba,' Judge Manova said.
Milley has a criminal history of child sex offences dating back to 1994, including sexual penetration of a child under 10 and a child under 16. He was previously sentenced in 2006 for possession of child abuse material and in 2018 for offences against a nine-year-old boy with a disability. Judge Manova noted Milley's diagnosis of paedophilic and hebephilic disorders from 2018, and said his prospects for rehabilitation were 'not great'.
The court also heard that Milley had been placed on a good behaviour bond in 1994 on the basis that he was participating in the Exodus program, a church-run form of conversion therapy aimed at altering homosexual behaviour. Conversion practices have been outlawed in Victoria since 2022. Judge Manova described the earlier court's reasoning as 'a sign of the times'. Milley had previously worked as an aircraft engineer with Qantas and more recently at a recycling business.