The 25-year-old Warkworth man who admitted possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material - worked at a bouncy castle hire company

Regan Highfield pleaded guilty to 21 criminal charges last week - after a probe revealed he'd accessed almost eight thousand objectionable files and shared more than a thousand online.

Employer Big Fun Events says it's shocked and disgusted by the charges

It says Highfield's no longer an employee - and police checks carried out throughout his time there, had come back clean.

Highfield's been sentenced to 12 months home detention and registered as a child sex offender.