STOCKTON PERVERT STORED HUNDREDS OF SICKENING ABUSE VIDEOS
A pervert who stored hundreds of indecent videos and images of young children being sexually abused has been locked up after admitting saving his ‘favourites’.The 37-year-old, Steven Cuthbert, hid his collection of sick images in a cloud ‘mega-storage system’ but admitted to police that he regularly deleted images when he lost interest in them.
Cuthbert pleaded guilty to making indecent 30 videos and 57 images in Category A – the most serious offence; making 51 videos and 19 images in Category B; and making 103 videos in Category C between September 1, 2015, and July 7, 2023.
He was sentenced to 16 months in prison and issued a ten-year sexual harm prevention order with a requirement to sign the sex offenders’ register for the same period.
Judge Howard Crowson emphasized his dangerousness, noting the large volume of material related to boys aged 4-13, and highlighted that only a custodial sentence was appropriate due to the nature of his offences.
Cuthbert was also noted to have a particular sexual interest in boys aged four and five.
