Pedophiles Truong and Newton let childcare centre manager Daniel Maher live with them and sexually exploited "adopted" son A "DEVIANT" manager of a Cairns childcare centre who lived with two of the nation's most notorious pedophiles has blamed his Penetecostal Christian upbringing for his child porn habit. Daniel Patrick Maher, 30, lived with Cairns couple Peter Truong and Mark Newton for two years before they were charged in the US with sexually exploiting their "adopted" son by allowing pedophiles to molest him when he was aged between two and six. In the Brisbane District Court on Wednesday, Judge Michael Burnett sentenced Maher to one months jail after he pleaded guilty to sending 13 pornographic photos of children aged as young as five to a Texas sex offender who was in a depraved abuse network with Truong and Newton. Judge Burnett said Maher would also be supervised on parole for two years. Maher served 27 days behind bars after he was arrested in Victoria in 2013. Judge Burnett said a prison sentence was necessary for society to express its "revulsion with the nature of this offending." Maher said he became entangled with paedophile Mark Lawless, 35, from Texas, and Newton and Truong when he was struggling to reconcile his Penetecostal Christian upbringing in the NSW town of Grafton with his homosexuality. Maher admitted sending child porn to Lawless during Skype chats - even though he knew his two housemates Truong and Newton were facing charges of trafficking their son to a vile paedophile network. Lawless was a friend of Truong and Newton and was allowed to abuse their young son, whom they bought from a Russian orphanage in 2005 for $8000. Maher was working at the Penguin Childcare Centre in Cairns North when he sent the explicit photos and made Skype calls to Lawless to discuss them. He also sent photos of Truong and Newton's young son to Lawless. Maher also travelled overseas with Truong and Newton and their child, and he was on a trip with them when their Cairns house was raided by the Queensland police investigating the paedophile network in October 2011. Truong and Newton were arrested in the US four months later. Maher was living in the northern NSW town of Grafton when he met Truong and Newton online through the photo sharing service Flickr and they invited him to live with him in 2009. Maher "idolised" Truong and Newton because they were a gay couple who were successful, they had an adopted son and a relationship that Maher aspired to obtain. He lived in Cairns between 2009 and 2013. In the months before his arrest in Victoria in October 2013, Maher was working as a director of Essendon Fields Kinder Haven. After his arrest, he took part in an indigenous job program with Coles supermarkets. Maher argued he was "not a paedophile" but rather a homosexual who was "interested in photography." He argued that despite living with the notorious pedophiles for two years and travelling overseas with them he "didn't know" that they were selling their son for sex. A psychologist stated Maher was an "extremely naive" man with "limited life experience." Judge Burnett said Maher's indigenous background was not relevant to his crime, as it was "simply a crime of deviancy." Newton was sentenced by a US court to 40 years for his sex abuse, while Truong is serving 30 years. Maher was charged after US authorities gave evidence to Queensland Police.