A SEX OFFENDER WHO SENT INDECENT IMAGES OF CHILDREN TO ACQUAINTANCES VIA SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES HAS BEEN SPARED A TRIP TO JAIL.
Philip Ian Pobgee, 59, messaged that he was “enjoying being a paedo” and told an online acquaintance about his interest in a child as young as four, York Crown Court heard.
“Without people like you in the world youngsters would not be subjected to degrading and painful filming as they are,” Judge Simon Hickey told him.
Pobgee, of Pinfold Way, Sherburn-in-Elmet, pleaded guilty to two charges of distributing indecent images of children, three of having indecent images of children and one of having extreme pornographic images.
He was given a two-year prison sentence suspended for 18 months on condition he does 30 days’ rehabilitative activities and 100 hours’ unpaid work, put on the sex offenders’ register and made subject to a sexual harm prevention order restricting his use of the internet among other provisions, both for 10 years and ordered to pay £425 prosecution costs.
Emily Hassell, prosecuting, said police acting on a tip-off went to Pobgee’s house on October 6, 2022, and seized his iPhone and laptop.
They also found seven printed indecent images of children.
On the iPhone, they found 123 photographs and 36 videos of the worst category of indecent images of children, 85 photographs and three videos of the middle category and 110 photographs of the least serious category.
They also found eight photographs of extreme pornography.
Pobgee had sent one image of the worst category to someone via WhatsApp and had sent two images from the middle category to someone in two exchanges on the Kik website.
The judge said among messages recovered from the iPhone was one saying Pobgee was “enjoying being a paedo” and the reference to the young child.
He said people who distributed indecent images “almost always” went to jail but because Pobgee had only sent three images and other factors, he could suspend the prison sentence.
Nathan Davis, for Pobgee, said he had been suffering from depression at the time and made no further mitigation after the judge indicated he would not lock Pobgee up.
Court Outcome
Conviction and Sentencing Details
Sentenced
Detected legal outcome
ect to a sexual harm prevention order restricting his use of the internet among other provisions, both for 10 years and ordered to pay 425 prosecution costs. Emily Hassell, prosecuting, said police acting on a tip-off went to Pobgee's ho...
Suspended sentence
18 months
He was given a two-year prison sentence suspended for 18 months on condition he does 30 days' rehabilitative activities and 100 hours' unpaid work, put on the sex offenders' register and made subject to a sexual harm prevention order restricting his use of the internet among other provisions, both for 10 years and ordered to pay 425 prosecution costs
Community order
18 months
He was given a two-year prison sentence suspended for 18 months on condition he does 30 days' rehabilitative activities and 100 hours' unpaid work, put on the sex offenders' register and made subject to a sexual harm prevention order restricting his use of the internet among other provisions, both for 10 years and ordered to pay 425 prosecution costs
Court order
10 years
He was given a two-year prison sentence suspended for 18 months on condition he does 30 days' rehabilitative activities and 100 hours' unpaid work, put on the sex offenders' register and made subject to a sexual harm prevention order restricting his use of the internet among other provisions, both for 10 years and ordered to pay 425 prosecution costs
Fine or payment
18 months
He was given a two-year prison sentence suspended for 18 months on condition he does 30 days' rehabilitative activities and 100 hours' unpaid work, put on the sex offenders' register and made subject to a sexual harm prevention order restricting his use of the internet among other provisions, both for 10 years and ordered to pay 425 prosecution costs
