A pervert who downloaded sickening child abuse images has walked free from court.
Francis Logan used a private messaging service, called Q-Tox, under the name “Undertaker’ and with the tag line “always looking for little girls, the younger the better’. Liverpool Crown Court heard on Friday, September 9, that after police raided his home on September 20 last year they seized a computer tower which was forensically examined.
A total of 1909 indecent images of children were found and among the 484 in the most serious category were two of “young babies” being horrifically abused. As well as images in all three categories of seriousness police also found five prohibited cartoon images and 129 photographs of bestiality.
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Experts did not find any search terms used by Logan but discovered he used a file shredder app and TOR browser which allows users to be anonymous and to delete their history, said Derek Jones, prosecuting. Logan, of Hadleigh Road, Southdene, Kirkby, pleaded guilty to three offences of making indecent images and three possession offences including prohibited and extreme pornographic images.
Judge Stuart Driver, KC, said that the offences were aggravated by the presence of programmes to mask his activities and by the age of some of the children in the images. But he said that there was a realistic prospect of rehabilitation for Logan, who has no previous convictions, and sentenced him to eight months imprisonment suspended for 18 months.
He also ordered him to carry out 50 days rehabilitation activities and to sign on the Sex Offenders Register for ten years. He imposed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for the same length of time.
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