A quarry worker with an addiction to porn was found to have downloaded two child abuse videos showing girls as young as three from the internet. John Reed, 62, of Kilmersdon Road in Radstock, pleaded guilty to two charges of making an indecent images of a child and appeared before Bristol Crown Court for sentence today. (July 22, 2022)
The recorder Mr Richard Tutt handed him a four months prison sentence suspended for 20 months, with rehabilitation, unpaid work and a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order designed to stop reoffending. Reed was also ordered to pay £425 costs and a £122 victim surcharge.
The recorder told a remorseful Reed: "The offences are aggravated by the ages and vulnerability of the children depicted. They were movies, not just photographs."
