A scout leader caught by police with over 10,000 sickening child sex images on his computer – amassed during a thirteen-year porn addiction – was sentenced today.
Simon Tapsell, 29, (pictured) hoarded movies and images of boys and girls as young as six posing naked, masturbating and having sex with each other and adults.
He was trapped when police from the Met's paedophile unit raided the home he shares with his parents in Blackhorse Lane, Addiscombe, Croydon.
A total of 6,571 still images and 3,358 movies were on his personal computer – the most serious being a 14 year-old boy having sex with a dog.
Scout Association spokesman Simon Carter said: "Tapsell was suspended from any form of contact with the movement as soon as we were aware of his arrest.
"His appointment was subsequently cancelled and following his guilty plea he will never again be able to work as a volunteer in the Scout Movement."
However, the Scout Association would not reveal which scout group Tapsell was involved with.
He pleaded guilty to twenty-eight sample charges of possessing indecent images of boys and girls from the age of six upwards.
When quizzed by police Tapsell told them: "I have lived with indecent images for thirteen years. I have never shared them with anyone else."
Croydon Crown Court Judge Simon Pratt made a Section 37 hospital order, forcing Tapsell to continue undergoing treatment at the behavioural unit at Bethlem Hospital, Bromley.
The judge also made an order prohibiting the defendant from working with children and accessing the Internet.
"I am satisfied the requirements of the Mental Health Act are made out," announced Judge Pratt after reading medical and psychiatric reports on Asperger's Syndrome sufferer Tapsell.
"I am satisfied that you are suffering from a mental illness that will be treatable in the hospital you are staying."
The order will end when psychiatrists are satisfied Tapsell is fit to leave the hospital.
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