Hartlepool pervert had video of drunk or drugged girl being abused

Ian Robinson had about 200 illegal images of children on a computer tower, most of which featured children believed to be aged between eight and ten.

Teesside Crown Court heard a 54-second video in the most serious category depicted a girl believed to be aged around six who appeared to have been drugged or intoxicated.

A judge told Robinson, 50, immediate jail was ‘richly deserved’ and he had actively encouraged child abuse by seeking out such images.

But the sentence was suspended to try to change his warped thinking and reduce the risk he poses to the public.

Police searched Robinson’s home, where he lived with his parents, on May 30 last year and seized a number of devices including a computer tower he had built himself containing file sharing software.

Officers subsequently discovered 172 images and videos comprising 15 of the worst kind of child abuse, 23 in the the middle category and 134 in the lowest.

Vincent Ward, prosecuting, said: “When confronted with the images that were found on the computer he expressed surprise and he mentioned he had seen titles which had been downloaded inferring they might have been indecent images of children but he had not opened them.”

Mr Ward added: “In one of the images, category A I think, the viewer of that video made the point that the child in it appeared intoxicated or drugged.”

Robinson, of Church Street, who has since been ordered to leave the family home, admitted three counts of making an indecent image of a child between September 2018 and May 2019.

Stephen Constantine, defending, said all the images were downloaded in one night, adding: "This is not repeat behaviour.

“He’s a man of hitherto good character.”

Judge Jonathan Carroll said if he jailed Robinson it would be for a short while only and he would not receive rehabilitation work.

Instead he gave him eight months suspended for two years, 150 hours unpaid work and 25 Rehabilitation Activity Requirement days.

"There’s something going on in your sexual psyche that needs addressing,” said Judge Carroll.

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