A man, Craig Adams Middlewich Paedophile, who collated a sick online library of child abuse victims on his home PC over eight years was finally exposed after he was caught leering over a picture of a 17-year-old girl on the social media platform X.
Craig Adams, 34, kept hundreds of indecent images of children being abused on his computer for his perverted pleasure, including images of a baby and pictures of bestiality. However, he was eventually reported to the police due to ”suspicious activity” on the X platform, formerly Twitter, when he received a picture of another internet user’s girlfriend when she was 17.
In direct messages on X, the other man said: “You must like jailbait”, to which Adams replied that he wanted to ”see it all”, followed by disgusting suggestions. The user then messaged back, saying: “Sent.”
Officers raided Craig Adams’ home in Davenham Way, Middlewich, Cheshire, in June last year, seized his PC and mobile phone and found 683 still images of children, 137 of which were in highest category A, 102 in category B and 444 in category C.
He also had 45 “disgusting” images which “portrayed, explicitly and realistically” acts of bestiality. The sexually exploited and abused children, both male and female, were aged up to 12 years old and included babies. Adams had gathered all between March 2015 and 15th June 2023.
At Chester Crown Court, Craig Adams, whose girlfriend is standing by him, she pleaded guilty to four offences related to making or possessing indecent images and one offence of possessing extreme pornographic images.
He was sentenced to 10 months in prison and suspended for two years, requiring him to complete 35 rehabilitation activity days and 200 hours of unpaid work. He faced up to three years in jail under sentencing guidelines.
Prosecutor Thomas McLoughlin said: “On June 14, officers attended the defendant’s address having been passed intelligence that his Twitter account had been used to share indecent images of children.
“His address was searched, and many items were seized: a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone and a Vimeo 8 mobile phone. A full download was taken on both devices. Details show data from April 2015.
“By way of overview, there was the presence of males and females up to 12 years of age and a baby. The extreme pornography included bestiality matters. The defendant was subsequently interviewed but did not comment.”
Paedophile Defence counsel Mark Connor said in mitigation: “The defendant has the support of his long-term partner and father and his mother. His partner is here today, but the defendant did not want her to come to court.”
It seems odd that Craig Adams’ partner is so accepting of baby rape, child torture and animal sex images.
“In my submissions, Mr Craig Adams has had a significant period since this arrest to reflect on his offending behaviour and consider what he has done and the pattern of offending he has got himself into.
”He is very fearful of receiving a custodial sentence. He is an intelligent man who has thought long and hard about his criminal behaviour and how it has to be developed over a significant period. In an interview with the probation officer, he was refreshingly frank and did not seek to minimise or justify his conduct.
“He accepted that it was morally unacceptable and harmful and that, ultimately, it was to satisfy his sexual gratification. In these types of cases, defendants are not often so forthright and frank about their shameful behaviour.”
Craig Adams was also made subject to a sexual harm prevention order for ten years and made to sign on the Sex Offenders’ Register for ten years.
Friend to the Paedophiles, Judge Simon Berkson said: “You have a partner and a good job; nevertheless, between 2015 and 2023, a substantial period, you downloaded on your computer 683 indecent images of children. Each one of these images displayed some abuse committed to a child for you to happily look at whenever you wanted to over those years.
“You also had a substantial number of images of extreme pornography of people engaging in sexual activity with animals. These are serious offences, and there were many different victims and children suffering abuse for you to look at.
“One of those children has been described as a baby. You also had on that computer a way of cleaning up things on that computer. However, the mitigating factor is that you have never been in trouble. You are doing a good job and you have a steady relationship. Both your partner and your father speak highly of you.”
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