A PEEPING Tom who indecently filmed seven young girls when they came to his house to play with his daughter had his appeal against his 32-month prison term dismissed.

Jarrod Charles Gobetti was facing a maximum 10 years jail after he pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent recordings of children over a three-year period and one count of being in possession of child exploitation material.

Police found videos of the girls when they seized a hard drive during a search at Gobetti’s farm, where he lived with his wife and two children, in July 2015.

The hard drive was found to contain a “large number” of videos that were “indecent in nature”, with the camera zoomed in on the girls’ groin, breasts and buttocks – often while they were wearing their bathers, playing in the man’s swimming pool or on a trampoline in the backyard.

Some videos were also made of a victim getting changed in the man’s then seven-year-old daughter’s room with a hand-held camera discreetly placed opposite a sliding door mirror.

During those videos, the girl, who was aged 14 or 15 at the time, is seen completely naked.

Some of the videos were filmed through blinds in a dark room, another with Gobetti concealed behind a wall and others from an upstairs bedroom looking down on the backyard.

Police also found 216 child exploitation images on the hard drive which depicted girls from the age of 8.

In his appeal to the Supreme Court this week, Gobetti had argued he didn’t get the full 25 per cent discount on his sentence for his guilty plea. But the court found Gobetti didn’t plead guilty at the first opportunity, which meant parents of the seven girls had to view the images as part of the police case.

Gobetti also argued that the sentencing judge did not take into account the impact his jail sentence had on his family – who continued to support him – and his farm.

But the appeals court dismissed that claim and described the recordings as “a significant breach of trust”.

“In some cases, the offending involved deceit and planning. On some occasions the appellant concealed himself in order to make the recordings. On several occasions he set up a video camera in a room that he knew a child would use to undress. The appellant took advantage of the fact that the child would mistakenly assume that she was in a private area and unobserved,” the judgement said.

The appeal was dismissed and the man’s two-year and eight month jail sentence stands.