WHITTINGTON MAN JAILED FOR CHILD SEX IMAGES
A WHITTINGTON man who traded and made hundreds of ‘truly dreadful’ images of the highest category of child sexual abuse has been jailed.Rusty-Jay Tayhopon was given 14 months at Worcester Crown Court after admitting possession of and trading 879 category A images, including babies and young girls being abused by men, women and animals.
He also admitted four charges of possession of 407 category B images, 840 of category C images, possession of a prohibited image of a child and extreme pornography.
The 28-year-old, of Oakdene, Whittington, pleaded guilty at the first attempt.
Sentencing him, Judge Nicholas Cartwright told Tayhopon – who was described by his own defence barrister Simon Hands as a ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ character deserved to be imprisoned for a number of reasons.
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- The age of the children and the pain they were in, the overall time you were in possession of these images and that you were systemically searching for them.
- Your only mitigation is that you have engaged with the Lucy Faithfull Foundation [aimed at preventing child sexual abuse] and that makes for some reduction in your sentence.
“You’re entitled to one-third credit for your guilty plea so that takes it down to 14 months (from 21) leaving the remaining question is whether it can be suspended or not, and I think it can’t.
“There must be a deterrent to other people.” The offences took place between April 2017 and June 2021 before police were tipped off and raided Tayhopon’s residence.
Judge Cartwright added the defendant used 20 accounts to make specific word-related searches and said he could not ignore that 671 of the category A haul were moving images.
He added: “This is what you were interested in – the harm to these children is physical and psychological and they will know that these films will be out on the internet forever.” He told Mr Hands that the many references plus probation’s pre-sentence report had been taken into consideration ahead of his rejection of the defence’s request for a suspended sentence.
Tayhopon was given 14 months for the category A images, seven months for B, and three months for each remaining offence, to be served concurrently.
He was also given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order with a number of conditions around internet and computer use.
He was ordered to sign the sex offenders register for an indefinite period.
