DEVON MAN HANDED COMMUNITY ORDER FOR DISTRIBUTING SICK CHILD ABUSE IMAGES
A man from Devon named Morgan Wilson-Slider, aged 25, has been involved in distributing explicit child abuse images via online platforms.He was caught after uploading such material on Snapchat.
Police investigations revealed that they found over a thousand downloaded images and videos on his phone, with police indicating that this was only a small selection of the total content.
The police also traced Wilson-Slider's activity to three separate online chats through his Kik account, where he shared 32 images and videos with others in categories A to C, some labeled in a chat named 'Anything goes at all'.
He pleaded guilty to ten charges related to making, possessing, and distributing indecent images of children.
The court sentenced him to a three-year community order, with 150 hours of unpaid work.
Per the court's ruling, Wilson-Slider is mandated to undertake up to 30 rehabilitation sessions, sign a Sexual Offences Prevention Order, and remain on the sex offender register for five years.
Additionally, he is required to pay £400 in costs via deductions from his benefits.
During sentencing, it was highlighted that Wilson-Slider has autism and learning difficulties, and he expressed remorse by stating he had been driven by 'morbid curiosity' and is ashamed of himself, even opting for a vasectomy to prevent having children.
The police raided his address in July 2023 after traces of suspicious activity on Snapchat linked to him.
The device also contained 30 images and videos of the most serious category of abuse, involving very young children, which he had kept password-protected in a folder.
The prosecutor noted a 'high volume' of abuse images had been distributed over several months.
Wilson-Slider was also linked to three separate online chats where he shared illegal material with other paedophiles.
His offences include making, possessing, and distributing indecent images of children, with a total of 46,136 images identified on his phone, although police had not reviewed all of them.
The court heard that he had searched the internet for child abuse images and showed a particular interest in children's feet.
His actions followed a police raid in Ashburton after suspicious activity was traced back to him on Snapchat.
