NOTTINGHAMSHIRE MAN CAUGHT SHARING DISTURBING CHILD ABUSE VIDEOS GETS SUSPENDED SENTENCE
A pervert was looking at depraved images and videos of children and babies being abused, even tortured, and sharing the indecent pictures with other sick-minded people.One Nottinghamshire police officer described the images as the worst she had ever seen in her years of service, a court heard.
Even a judge, who spared offender Armando Becci from immediate jail, thanked his "lucky stars" he did not have to actually look at the images and stressed the reality was Becci was aiding and abetting the abuse of these children.
Local officers went to Becci's home on information from the National Crime Agency that a mobile phone had been used to upload images from his address.
Two mobile phones were seized and the images viewed by the officer were of babies as young as two months old to 16-year-old girls, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
Descriptions of the images, depicting abuse, are too graphic to publish - but involved rape of babies, six to seven year old's purportedly being raped by their "father" in "incest videos" and a horrific video involving a five-year-old girl.
"The videos show children very, very distressed by what was taking place," said Brian Outhwaite, prosecuting, on Wednesday (February 22).
"Police established he was sharing Category A (the most serious) and Category B images to others by messenger app and messages with others depicting role-play child abuse scenarios and including Category A and B images in support of the scenario." One scenario involved Becci, of Redwing Close, Worksop, pretending to be a child who was raped.
Aged 23, and with no previous convictions, the judge ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the phones seized.
Becci, who refused to speak to Nottinghamshire Live when approached about the case, had pleaded guilty to distributing indecent images of children, downloading them, and possessing prohibited images which were in a cartoon animated style.
Recorder Adrian Reynolds said he had read summaries of some of the images Becci was viewing and sharing with his "like-minded associates" - and "I thank my lucky stars that I did not have to actually look at them, because the verbal description of them almost makes someone battle-hardened to this stuff - sick; sick, if not angry as well." "I don't think anyone could look at the stuff you were looking at without a deep sense of anger, because, the reality is, you were aiding and abetting the abuse of these children.
This was, in some cases, torture of young, innocent children." This court case outlines the serious nature of Becci's actions, which involved viewing and sharing highly illegal and disturbing images depicting child abuse and incest scenarios.
He was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for two years, and required to undertake court-ordered therapy and rehabilitation sessions.
His sexual harm prevention order will last five years, and he will be on the sex offenders' register for ten years.
The judge warned him that he narrowly avoided prison and that there would be no leniency if he committed similar offenses again.
