Teh One Who Knocks
09-15-2015, 10:59 AM
By Elle Griffiths , Ryan Jennings - The Mirror
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A father who stored almost 1,500 indecent images of children on his computer has escaped with a community order after telling the judge: "Curiosity got the better of me."
Peter Rowe, 50, told the court he had lost his job, wife, children and his home after admitting a total of nine charges relating to 1,430 indecent images of children as well as 93 extreme pornographic images involving animals.
Speaking at Chelmsford Crown Court on Friday, his lawyer Evelyn Hicks said: "He was a working man.
"He had a family, children.
"Since his arrest, he has lost everything - his wife, his home and his family completely.
"This all came about because he didn't have the best childhood and curiosity got the better of him and that curiosity turned into a want. He never acted on it."
Sentencing Rowe to a three-year community order, Judge Christopher Ball said he was satisfied Rowe was safe to release into the community having sought help at mental health charity, the Linden Centre, in Chelmsford.
He was discharged last week but is still receiving support.
Rowe was first arrested in April 2014 after police searched his home in Colchester, Essex.
The images were downloaded by Rowe between September 2012 and April 2014.
http://i.imgur.com/UoEh6vF.jpg
A father who stored almost 1,500 indecent images of children on his computer has escaped with a community order after telling the judge: "Curiosity got the better of me."
Peter Rowe, 50, told the court he had lost his job, wife, children and his home after admitting a total of nine charges relating to 1,430 indecent images of children as well as 93 extreme pornographic images involving animals.
Speaking at Chelmsford Crown Court on Friday, his lawyer Evelyn Hicks said: "He was a working man.
"He had a family, children.
"Since his arrest, he has lost everything - his wife, his home and his family completely.
"This all came about because he didn't have the best childhood and curiosity got the better of him and that curiosity turned into a want. He never acted on it."
Sentencing Rowe to a three-year community order, Judge Christopher Ball said he was satisfied Rowe was safe to release into the community having sought help at mental health charity, the Linden Centre, in Chelmsford.
He was discharged last week but is still receiving support.
Rowe was first arrested in April 2014 after police searched his home in Colchester, Essex.
The images were downloaded by Rowe between September 2012 and April 2014.