Medway dad admits downloading child porn
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by Julia Roberts
A former Medway council officer who downloaded child porn
told police that "pretty girls are pretty girls", a court heard
today.
Married father-of-two Andrew Shea said he found the pictures
"attractive in an artistic sense" and viewed them out of
curiosity.
Maidstone Crown Court heard the 42-year-old added he had been
viewing adult porn since his late teens but his "problem" became
worse following the death of his father.
A total of 212 images ranging across all levels of seriousness
were found on his computer and laptop at his home in Tavistock
Close, Rainham, in October last year.
Shea, who lived at the address with his wife Lucy and children,
then aged four years old and six weeks, also had 31 extreme
pornographic images.
He was suspended from his job within the council's leisure
services department after the police investigation.
Shea admitted 10 offences of making indecent photographs of
children between April 2008 and October last year.
He also pleaded guilty to three charges of possessing extreme
pornographic images between January and October last year.
Imposing six months' imprisonment suspended for two years, Judge
Martin Joy said Shea must attend the Home Office accredited Sex
Offenders' Treatment Programme.
He also made Shea subject to a Sexual Offences Prevention Order
banning him from using the internet for any purpose other than
seeking employment, study, work, lawful recreation or purchasing of
goods and services for five years.
Friday, July 30 2010
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