In September, he was on parole from a five-year sentence received in 2008.
Though his parole conditions banned him from possessing a computer or accessing the internet, Laing used a laptop from his home in Massey, Auckland, to go on to a "friend-to-friend" sharing site where he took the user name "baby rape".
He used an unsecured wireless connection belonging to a neighbour to share folders including a video folder with 271 video clips and image folders labelled "baby and toddler" and "5 to 10".
The image folders contained 6000 image files depicting sexual abuse.
He shared 24 of the images with a user in the United States.
However, he did not know the user was actually a sheriff from Madison County, Alabama, posing as a paedophile.
Customs staff were contacted who traced the internet connection to the router and then to Laing's home.
He was charged with 24 counts of supplying objectionable images and one count of breaching parole conditions.
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