**POSSIBLY TRIGGERING** Re indecent images

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Just looking for legal advice.
Someone who has been working in our house (decorating etc) for the last month was in court recently for possessing ‘indecent images’ and was put on the sex offenders register for 5 years and has some community work/rehab.
He tells me it was an image of an adult.
I have three young children and am crapping myself that he hasn’t told the truth and it was in fact images of children.
We asked him to leave immediately.
Do ‘indecent’ images always involve children or could the content have been indecent images of adults?
Either way, it’s awful.

Well if they were taken without the adults consent and full permission. Yes I’d imagine it is still classed as an offence, so it could well be indecent images of adults rather than children (not that that makes it okay of course). Then again he could very well be lying. Either way I don’t blame you for getting rid and not wanting him around your little ones.
Do you know his name. You can look him up on the sex offenders register, I’d imagine.

Yes, I know his name. Thanks. I contacted the police to try to clarify the story but they can’t release why he’ll be on the register as we’ve since fired him and he’ll no longer have contact with us..

Adults + animals = "indecent".

It's likely to be children tbh
Have you done a search of his name to see if his conviction was reported in the local area?

Yeh, nothing comes up when I google and name is quite unusual so don’t think I’ve missed it.

How did you find out?

He told my husband that the day before, he’d been in court. He then gave a long drawn out story of the alleged offence and said it was all a misunderstanding but that the court hadn’t felt so, hence being put on Sex Offenders register.
Something about it all just doesn’t sit right with me.

He was fully expecting to continue working here, which makes me think he’s down playing the crime so that we didn’t get rid of him but I just wouldn’t feel comfortable having him in the house.

It's 100 per cent children
You did the right thing

I’m starting to think that. Searched the kids’ bedrooms for hidden cameras last night.
I emailed the police again last night who said this morning can apply via gov.uk for details of the court case.
I don’t get why he said anything at all to my husband though.. it’s so strange.

It doesn't sound like someone you would want in your house either way to be honest, whatever it was it must have been bad for that sentence.

You did the right thing, you can never be too careful with your children.

Id feel totally freaked out about having someone like that in my house too, bloody creep!

I know. And I really don’t want to be a drama llama about it. I’m confident my kids were safe at all times but the only thing I worry is that the younger pair nap in the day and I’d put them upstairs in their cots for 2 hours while he was working in the next bedroom. They’re noisy and if woken start shouting for me. I’d put the monitor on and house is quiet so I’m sure I would have heard him go in.
I dunno, I cant bear thinking about it but those are the thoughts whirring around my head at 3am. 😞
Flitting between feeling absolutely stupid for doing that and reassuring myself that most would do the same.

Yes, I would have done the same.
Whatever he did, it doesn't sound good.

And also, I wouldn't want a convicted sex offender in my house/around my children. I don't care what they did, to whom or any excuses they have to give. Just no. It's your house and you can decide who comes in, no explanations needed.

Oh OP don't torture yourself! Your children were fine during their nap, nothing at all happened to them. You know yourself you would have heard on the baby monitors! And you didn't. So nothing happened and your wee ones were and are ok. And you took protective action immediately to make sure it stayed that way.

Mum guilt eh!

Aah thanks X

@Taraswell you don't know it's 100% children!

Indecent pictures CAN be children but can also be adults and animals.

Whatever the crime and whatever e picture you have done the right thing op.

Conviction regarding indecent images is children
Adults and animals come under different categories