Cross-dressing pervert Raymond Johnson collected hundreds of child abuse images
Maidstone Crown Court,
where Johnson was sentenced
by Keith Hunt
A twisted pervert who collected hundreds of child sex abuse
images and distributed them declared he was excited by high-pitched
sounds of youngsters, a court heard.
Raymond Johnson, who also spied on a girl undressing with a
secret camera, added he developed the fetish when he was watching
adult porn.
The 36-year-old cross-dresser, of Leaveland Close, Ashford, was
jailed for 15 months after admitting distributing indecent
photographs of children, possessing them, possessing extreme
pornography, voyeurism and securing unauthorised access to computer
email with intent.
Maidstone Crown Court heard Johnson’s home was raided in
November last year after the police child protection unit received
a report that an email account had been hacked into.
An email containing obscene images which had been distributed
was traced to Johnson. He was summoned from work and computer
equipment was seized.
Prosecutor Keith Yardy told a judge: “During interview, he
stated that about a year before in 2010 he discovered he was
sexually excited by the high-pitched sounds of children, not
necessarily in sexual content.”
Johnson admitted hacking into an ex-girlfriend’s email account
and using the alter-ego of a 13-year-old lesbian from
Folkestone.
In distributing images, he said he hoped to receive pictures of
girls in return.
"Johnson indiscriminately preyed upon vulnerable females by pretending to be a female" – DC Matthew Avery
He would look at them
twice a day five days a week. He wanted sound on movie clips to
hear the high-pitched sounds.
Mr Yardy said chat logs showed Johnson has discussed shared
images with at least 72 different people.
Johnson said two bestiality movie clips showing adults having
sex with a dog and horse dated back to 2000.
He had also set up a secret camera and filmed a teenage girl
changing into his feminine clothes. She was seen in her underwear
while changing eight times.
Mr Yardy said the girl was disgusted when she discovered she had
been hoodwinked.
Johnson wept as Judge Martin Joy told him: “I have no doubt
whatsoever the offences are of such gravity that a non-custodial
sentence cannot be justified.”
The voyeurism offence showed a perverted aspect to his
personality and character, the judge added.
Johnson’s name will he added to the sex offenders’ register and
a sexual offences prevention order was imposed.
DC Matthew Avery, of Kent Police child exploitation and
investigation team, said after the hearing: “Johnson
indiscriminately preyed upon vulnerable females by pretending to be
a female.
"In order to do this he illegally accessed someone’s internet
account so that he could masquerade as them.
“Johnson then amassed a collection of indecent images of
children, some of which he distributed to others.
"This demonstrates that he lacks awareness of the very real harm
that such behaviour causes to the children and that he saw them as
objects for his own satisfaction.”
04/01/13
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