WESTON-SUPER-MARE MAN JAILED FOR CHILD ABUSE IMAGES
A truck driver has been sentenced to prison after it emerged he was driven by a profoundly deep-seated sexual obsession with children, which he fed through the downloading of explicit child abuse images.The individual, identified as David Brody, formerly known as Fitzmaurice, has a history of previous convictions related to similar offenses, as detailed in court proceedings at Bristol Crown Court.
The court heard that Brody also had prior convictions for indecent assaults involving girls under the age of 16.
Now 61 years old and residing on Upper Church Road in Weston-super-Mare, Brody admitted to three charges of possessing indecent images of children on May 14, 2020.
He also confessed to breaching a sexual offences prevention order issued earlier, on April 4, 2020, by not surrendering all his internet-connected devices for inspection.
Judge Edward Burgess KC sentenced him to two years and three months in prison, highlighting the nature of his conduct: "Your behaviour was devious, designed to feed very deeply entrenched sexually perverted fascination with children.
Undoubtedly it was a deliberate breach.
A very serious breach which was quite persistent.
Real children in the real world were caused very serious harm and distress by the making of those images." In addition to his prison term, Brody was subject to a 20-year sexual harm prevention order, requiring him to inform police of his whereabouts for a decade.
Prosecutor Ellen McAnaw explained that Brody had admitted to downloading three images classified at the highest level of harm, along with additional images in less serious categories.
When police asked for his devices, Brody failed to surrender all of them, and authorities later found the images during inspection—images he initially denied responsibility for.
