The identity of a former WA school teacher who indecently recorded several dozen children can finally be revealed after a suppression order on his name was lifted.
Christopher Ryan Jones, 31, entered guilty pleas earlier this year to 62 charges, including 57 counts of indecently recording a child.
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He also pleaded guilty to possessing and producing child exploitation material.
Most of his offending relates to the indecent recording of children both inside and outside of schools. The children were aged between 6 and 15.
Jones was arrested in August 2015 after a mobile phone found at the school he was teaching at was handed into police.
Detectives carried out a search warrant at his home the next day and seized computers, electronic devices, more mobile phones and micro optical recording devices.
An analysis of those devices uncovered thousands of child exploitation images and video recordings.
A suppression order on Jones' identity was put in place at his first court appearance 18 months ago.
But that order was set aside in the WA District Court last Thursday by Chief Judge Kevin Sleight.
Judge Sleight said he was removing the order in the "interests of open justice."
The localities of where Jones' offending took place remain suppressed.
However, WAtoday can report the offending happened in the "Perth metropolitan area and the south and south-eastern regions of Western Australia."
The District Court was told on Thursday there were about 40 complainants in total.
Jones' employment as a school teacher was terminated once he was arrested.
Education Department executive director Eamon Ryan said staff and police "acted immediately" after the discovery of the mobile phone at the school.
"We will continue to cooperate with police and the man will not be able to work in any schools while this matter is ongoing," Mr Ryan said at the time of Jones' arrest.
"As this is a police matter and now before the courts, we will not make any further comment."
Jones remains in custody and will be sentenced in May.