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Matthew James McDonald can be revealed as one of Queensland’s most dangerous pedophiles. The extreme risk the 29-year-old poses to the public, and a psychologist’s recommendation for chemical castration were recently highlighted in Rockhampton District Court where McDonald was sentenced in March for his latest heinous act – the sexual assault of a five-year-old girl in a playground toilet. He has offended against at least 19 Central Queensland and Mackayu002FWhitsundays children in the past 10 years. Crown prosecutor Cameron Keast said McDonald told police he had carried out those offences for “his own sexual gratification”. Mr Keast said McDonald, who “received quite extensive … quite a lot of support from a support worker” but would go out into the community unsupervised when their shifts ended, also took photos or videos of 10 different female children on seven different dates in December 2022. “It involved predatory conduct, including entering schools, filming children in compromised positions, interacting with children and following them,” Mr Keast said. When searching McDonald’s Koongal home in December 2022, police also discovered 367 tabs open on his computer linking to child abuse material. In total 8048 CEM images and 170 videos were found on McDonald’s devices. McDonald had also failed to report various accounts he had used to talk to children online including YouTube, email, Telstra wif, Pinterest, VegoLive, Xbox Live, IMO, Zigazoo, BuzzCast and Xoul along with psych services website Purple Ocean. McDonald pleaded guilty to nine counts of making child exploitation material, one count of indecent treatment of a child under 12, one count of using a carriage service to access child exploitation material and 12 counts of failing to comply with reporting requirements as a reportable child sex offender. He was sentenced to seven and a half years in jail with 790 days presentence custody declared as time already served.