Shame of child porn on screen

Apr 10 2008 By Mark Cowan

POLICE who raided a Birmingham sales rep's home discovered 90 indecent images of children stored on his computer.

Judge Frank Chapman told Wayne Baker that some were "extremely unpleasant", depicting activities between adults and children.

"Images of that sort usually attract prison sentences," he said.

But the judge, sitting at Birmingham Crown Court, added: "I'm prepared to accept that the images were offered to you when you were searching the internet for other things and you decided to pursue it out of your own interests."

Baker, 33, of Flint Green Road, Acocks Green, admitted 12 charges of making indecent images of children.

He was given nine months imprisonment suspended for two years, ordered to register as a sex offender for five years and pay £277 costs.

Christopher Lester, prosecuting, said police went to Baker's home as a result of information received from an internet monitoring agency, and found a laptop and a computer.

The computer was electronically examined and found to contain 90 obscene pictures of varying levels of seriousness.

Sarah Allen, defending, said Baker was bisexual and had been searching for gay porn when he came across pop-ups which he clicked on out of curiosity.

Once he realised the "hideousness" of what he had done he had used software to try to eliminate the images.