A pervert whose sickening collection of indecent images included a newborn baby being abused has been spared prison.
Police went to the home of Peter Forbes in January last year and seized his computer devices. They found 34 of the most serious, category A images, 21 category B images and 74 category C. There were also 24 prohibited images and four extreme pornography images.
Omar Ahmad, prosecuting, told Newcastle Crown Court the children featured were aged between a newborn baby and 16 years old. One showed a one-week-old baby being abused and there was "discernable pain and distress" from the children.
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There was also evidence Forbes had also engaged in chats with others about "younger" children and had made word searches for terms associated with paedophilic images.
Forbes, 28, of Church Road, Gateshead, pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images, possessing prohibited images of children and possessing extreme pornography. He was sentenced to 12 months suspended for 18 months with 120 hours unpaid work.
Brian Hegarty, defending, said: "The general public will, of course, be horrified and appalled, quite rightly, over images of this type. He had an addiction to pornography from the age of ten.
"He was on the dark web and came to download these images. He referred himself for counselling after his arrest."
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