A 34 year-old mummy’s boy, caught with over 20,000 sick pictures and videos of young children, plus disturbing publication ‘The Pedophiles Handbook,’ has been jailed for 32 months.
Department store worker Matthew Costar described in court as a “solitary” individual who lives with his mother had another handbook called ‘Kids and Sex Toys.’
“Over a lengthy period of time you were collecting dreadful images of young children being raped and terribly abused,” Croydon Crown Court Judge Nicholas Ainley told him on Friday.
“You joined with people of the same mind and distributed the material so others could view. I agree this was all fantasy on your part, but the children being abused were real enough.
“We are dealing with young children here, many are six or seven years-old and go down to three years of age.”
Costar, of Elmcroft Road, Orpington pleaded guilty to three counts of making a total of 22,211 images; possessing the two manuals and distributing indecent images.
Prosecutor Mr. Jonathan Loades told the court police raided Costar’s home on September 15, 2017. “The defendant had a large number of computers and laptops and hard drives.
“It was clear there was peer-to-peer software allowing others to search his hard drives and download material and all items were seized and submitted for forensic analysis.”
Costar’s lawyer Mr. Mark Bagshaw said: “He is a solitary man and does not have access to children and has from an early age looked at pornography online.
“He looked at adult pornography, but also child pornography and has reflected on what he has done.
“He has not accessed pornography for the last two years and resigned from his department store job yesterday.
‘He got himself into a habit without particularly thinking about it and there is no suggestion his viewing of images has gone any further than that.”
Costar was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register and made subject to a ten-year sexual harm prevention order.
3 comments:
What everyone wants to know is why is nobody from coop speaking up to the public about this artical and why this offender can still work in a public place around children? People have been trying to contact coop page and even try and contact customer services and higher management and don’t get anywhere! The public have heard everyone deserves a second chance and this person can’t be sacked from store as it’s a crime he commited from 2017. Shame on coop for still wanting this person in store. Avoid the local store if possible
Can I ask what co op this sicko works In please?
The department store who ‘IT’ resigned from had no idea he was to be sentenced with the vile charges he admitted to. The police should have made the company aware as soon as his house was raided. The article is incorrect he was around children before he resigned at the Department store.
He may be on the sex offender register but I can’t see how he is now working for the co op. Surly they would have asked if he had any previous convictions and require a DSB check?
It’s none of your business where this person works or doesn’t work. Everyone who has committed a crime should be allowed to move on. It’s sad people in this world who can’t let what people have done wrong go and want to harass them and stop them from moving on. You say he shouldn’t work in public around children but the thing is how do you know what every other human being has done wrong in there life or criminal convictions they have or haven’t got while they walk around in public. So that argument is lost, you could walk past a murderer, a rapist etc. most likely people have been near, next to you or behind someone that has a criminal record or not. It is not up to you to decide what they can or can’t do. When applying for any jobs they do these checks and the companies have the right to hire people with convictions.
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