From A Baseline Of, Essentially, Zero

20 hours ago

Man spared jail over child porn

"A paedophile [sic] who downloaded child porn has been spared jail - after a judge said locking him up could be more dangerous to society in the long term.

JF, 35, of Bargoed, South Wales, had amassed a collection of around 2,700 indecent images when police raided his home earlier this year.

Cardiff Crown Court heard almost a third of the images were at the higher end of the offence scale - with 786 graded level four and 29 level five images. The details of the photographs were so serious, Judge David Wyn Morgan asked the media not to publish their details.

He said: "The natural [conditioned] reaction of any decent [sic] human being would be that you should go to prison for as long as possible [why?]. But when the revulsion [why?] has subsided, the court must consider precisely what that would achieve [indeed].

"You would go into prison as sex offender [sic] and still come out as one [sic] - just as dangerous [i.e. not] if not more so than you are at the moment [not hard, from a baseline of, essentially, zero]. And the protection of the public [being everyone] must be of paramount concern to the court.""

"Judge Morgan decided to make the defendant the subject of a sex offenders treatment programme for three years. He will also have to sign the sex offenders register until at least 2017 and undertake 250 hours of unpaid work.

F is not allowed to have any contact with any children under the age of 16 - either in person, on the telephone or via the internet - without the approval of their parents. He is also banned from deleting the browsing history on his computer as well as erasing any images from a digital camera or camera phone without permission from the police. [grossly disproportionate, and outside the remit of a SOPO, as usual - what are these defence lawyers doing for their money?]

Judge Morgan said: "This is not a soft option. It is a particularly difficult one."

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Paedophile [sic] who downloaded sickening child porn is spared jail because prison 'could make him more dangerous'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2196492/Paedophile-downloaded-sickening-child-porn-spared-jail-prison-make-dangerous.html#ixzz25DoXY6Yc