A convicted child sex offender, who was caught driving an under-age boy home from a skate park in the middle of the night, had up to 1.5 million indecent images on his computer when police searched his home.
Paedophile Paul Pelletier, 64, of Stanhope Road, Beckenham breached his Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) by having unsupervised contact with the youngster and was jailed for nine months.
At Croydon Crown Court (pictured) last Friday Pelletier, since freed from that sentence, was given a twelve-month community order after pleading guilty to twelve counts of possessing indecent images.
The court heard police seized a computer tower and separate hard drive from his address and after identifying 46,772 child sex images decided not to investigate the remaining files.
“The hard drive had significantly more images on it and the total number of files was one –and-a-half million, but only some were examined,” said prosecutor Mr. Frederick Ferguson.
The twelve sample counts Pelletier admitted included boys under ten years old engaging in oral and anal sex, plus mutual masturbation.
One scene involved a five year-old boy with an adult male and other images included boys aged approximately fourteen to seventeen engaged in a variety of sexual activity.
A total of fifty moving images were found and the remainder were still images, with 355 of them at Level Four – the second highest category of obscenity.
In February 2005 Pelletier was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment for similar offences and made subject to the SOPO, which he breached when driving the young boy to the skate park and back home again to his mother.
Judge Ruth Downing told the online music memorabilia trader: “You pleaded guilty to looking at indecent images of young boys participating in sexual activity amongst themselves and to some extent with adults.
“I would hesitate to venture an opinion as to whether that means you wish to have sex with young boys or by looking at photos you somehow deal with that desire.
“There is not a shred of evidence you have approached young boys for sex, but that does not mean I do not understand the genuine fears there are that people can worm their way into other peoples families.
“You did take a young lad off to a skateboard park in the middle of the night and that was a foolish thing to do, but there is no evidence of any sexual motivation at that time.”
As a condition of his community order Pelletier was ordered to attend a community sex offenders group work programme and he must sign the Sex Offenders Register for ten years.
A new five-year SOPO was made prohibiting the defendant from communicating with a child aged under sixteen via the internet or telephone; ordering him to notify the police of his vehicle’s registration and only use the internet for lawful recreation.
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