MAN CAUGHT WITH BABY ABUSE FILM GETS SUSPENDED SENTENCE
A paedophile has been spared prison despite being caught with a film of a six-month-old baby being abused.Luke Marriott, 21, watched sick child abuse images which included young children aged two to three.
Other images and films included boys aged between 10 and 12 being abused by adults.
And he was also looking at disgusting videos showing women having sex with horses and dogs, reports DerbyshireLive.
Marriott, kept the images in a Dropbox account on the internet which, when he was asked about them by the police, admitted he was keeping them to share if anyone else wanted to see them.
Sentencing him to 20 months in jail, suspended for two years, Judge Robert Egbuna said: 'The images were graphic and disturbing with young children being abused.' At his original hearing before Christmas, prosecutor Christopher Eckersley said the offences date back to 2015 and have taken this long to come to court as the Dropbox account Marriott used was held by a Californian firm and it has taken this amount of time for the American authorities to provide Derbyshire police with a report.
He said the National Crime Agency alerted the police that the Dropbox account containing indecent images was linked to his email address.
They went to his home address in Nottingham Road, seized his devices and arrested him.
Mr Eckersley said: “Significantly, he told police that he kept the images just in case anyone he was talking to on the internet asked him for them.
129 indecent images and movies were discovered which included 81 of (the most serious) category A.” Mr Eckersley outlined some of the films and images that were found.
While under investigation for these offences, police seized Marriott’s mobile phone in July of 2018 and it again contained four further vile child abuse images of category C which is the least serious.
He pleaded guilty to four counts of making indecent images and has a previous conviction for the same offence dating back to 2014, when he was 15.
Marriott’s sentencing at Derby Crown Court had been adjourned so that psychiatric tests could be done on him.
They concluded he was “not dangerous” but the probation service prepared a different report which concluded he was “a high risk of harm to female children and posed a high risk of re-offending”.
As part of the suspended sentence, Judge Egbuna attached a two-year community order which will see Marriott supervised by the probation service.
He must attend a 90-day sex offender group work programme and attend 60 rehabilitation days to address his offending.
Marriott was also handed a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and placed on the sex offenders register, also for 10 years.
