A man had more than 200 videos of young children being raped on his iPhone.
Ming Deng was found with images of children as young as two years old being sexually abused after police raided his home in Warrington last year.
Deng appeared at Liverpool Crown Court this morning after admitting multiple child sexual offences.
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But the 28-year-old walked free after a judge said he had a realistic chance of rehabilitation without going to prison.
Joanne Cronshaw, prosecuting, said police raided Deng’s home in Warrington last year after being handed information linking his IP address with sexual abuse material. They seized a laptop and his iPhone, with later analysis showing he had 245 videos and 23 images showing child sexual abuse.
The court heard some of the videos showed children as young as two to four years of age. Ms Cronshaw said Deng initially gave a no comment interview to police but later admitted multiple charges of downloading images of child sexual abuse and one charge of possession of the same images.
Mark Shanks, defending, said Deng’s usage of other types of pornography spiralled into downloading images of child abuse during a period in which he was under high levels of stress. He said Deng, who has no previous convictions, was now “disgusted” with himself and had already made contact with charities who aim to help paedophiles address their behaviour.
He appealed to the judge, Recorder Daniel Prowse, to suspend any prison term so that Deng could “work with probation to ensure he doesn’t go down this dark path again”. Recorder Prowse said Deng’s activity perpetuated the abuse of children.
He said: “Each image you had was of a real child being sexually abused. In children as young as two that abuse can be physically harmful but for any child who is sexually abused, real psychological harm frequently follows.
“By viewing and downloading these images you contributed towards the market for their creation and so perpetuated this cycle of abuse.”
Deng, of Station Road, Padgate, was handed a ten month jail term suspended for 18 months.
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