A deviant Jack Bauer fan, Spencer Pledge Worthing Paedophile, who had counter-terrorism unit-style badges and followed children around in a car fitted with flashing blue lights has walked free from court.
Spencer Pledge was barred from having anything which could make him look like a police officer, although he had stab vests, handcuffs and badges.
Following young ladies about in the car, filming them and himself, the bin man was imprisoned in 2013 for 34 months.
Spencer Pledge of Sackville Road, Broadwater, Worthing, admitted eighteen crimes involving sexual activity in the presence of children and possessing hundreds of obscene photos of children.
The 46-year-old has recordings of himself engaging in obscene behaviour with women in the backdrop.
Police also discovered hundreds of inappropriate pictures of young children acquired from the internet.
Spencer Pledge admitted four offences of sexual activity in the presence of ten to twelve-year-old girls, eight offences of making indecent images of children, five offences of having more than 900 indecent images of children and one offence of outraging public decency in the presence of three ten-year-old children and two adult women.
Spencer Pledge was forbidden from owning any emergency services kit as punishment.
On his release from prison, he had to sign the Sex Offenders Register permanently pledging.
Later modified to the Sexual Harm Prevention Order, he also received an indefinite sexual offenders prevention order.
Nine stipulations in the order were meant to stop Spencer Pledge from having any access to children and from any more crimes being carried out upon his release from jail.
However, a search of his house turned up two stab vests, handcuffs, a radio, and police insignia upon his release.
The Sussex Police crest and ID sewed inside one of the stab vests.
Following his arrest and prosecution at Lewes Crown Court Pledge, he told a jury he loved American Crime Program 24 and kept Jack Bauer badges among his memorabilia collection.
Claiming he wanted the stab vests for an Airsoft game, a kind of paintball, the sex offender pretended to be police.
Made well-known by Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Bauer is a fictional US anti-terrorism agent.
Pledge broken Sexual Harm Prevention Orders prohibiting him from wearing a police uniform and carrying a camera in a vehicle.
During a 2019 routine house check, police, looking at his phones, discovered an image of Pledge taken inside his waste lorry.
More investigation turned up the stab vests and other equipment.
“Spencer Pledge had acted in a most offensive and distressing way towards these young girls, who were very shaken by their experience,” Sussex Police Detective Constable Lindsey Van-Buiten stated following his 2013 imprisonment.
“Some did not know how to report it then, but they and their families have provided complete cooperation to this inquiry.
“Spencer Pledge’s videoing of some of his acts and also separately downloading obscene photographs of minors from the internet, all for his satisfaction, made his offending much worse.
“We are glad his offending has been stopped; there is no evidence he physically mistreated any children.”
“Spencer Pledge is a committed offender, whose pattern of behaviour was spotted thanks to our officers in conducting random checks of his Sexual Harm Prevention Order,” a Sussex Police spokesman said following his conviction for breaking his SHPO.
“A classic illustration of its implementation is the purpose of Sexual Harm Prevention Orders—the limited ability of an offender to harm.
“Alongside our partner agencies will continue to use all tools at our disposal to catch perpetrators of sexual offences, put measures in place to limit their offending outside of the criminal justice system and react swiftly to any breaches of these restrictions.”
The jury decided Spencer Pledge guilty of violating the SHPO by carrying police gear and a camera in a car.
Judge Stephen Mooney, imprisoned Spencer Pledge for two years, suspended for two years and directed him to complete 200 hours of unpaid labour and 20 rehabilitation days.
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