I’ve just read this article and am gobsmacked and horrified that a judge decided not to lock this person up. As if possessing a collection of sadistic toddler sexual abuse videos wasn’t bad enough, this person had previously also imprisoned a woman and sexually assaulted her (and was sent to prison for that in 2018, yet is out already causing more harm to others).
Although there are certainly going to be issues about where this person should be locked up, how tf can anyone look at the list of offences and think it’s ok for such a person to be out and free in our society? What is wrong with our judicial system?
https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/19837391.colchester-sex-offender-21-sick-child-images/
“A transgender woman who was found in possession of indecent images depicting the abuse of toddlers has been spared an immediate prison sentence.
Registered sex offender Louise Foord, 21, who appeared at Ipswich Crown Court under her birth name Lewis Foord, was found by police to have breached notification requirements last year.
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The investigation revealed indecent images on both devices.
On the iPad, 39 images of children at the most serious Category A were found, 39 at Category B and 19 at Category C.
Also found on the device were 22 moving images and videos at Category A, eight at Category B and three at Category C.
On the iPhone, 49 images at Category A were found, 43 at Category B and 28 at Category C.
The court was told some of the most serious images had “hallmarks of sadism” and involved the abuse of toddlers.
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Judge Levett said: “You’ve got several previous convictions for what I count up to be effectively 19 offences, most of which were for violence on an adult who was either supervising you or in a position of authority.”
The court was told Foord was jailed in June 2019 after sexually assaulting and falsely imprisoning a woman.”