December 2016 FBI snares Black Country pervert FBI snares Black Country pervert who made indecent images and stole children’s underwear The FBI helped snare a Black Country church-goer who made hundreds of indecent images of children and stole female underwear. Andrew Day, aged 37, was found to have made 189 indecent images of children, 39 of which were in the worst category, and 213 moving images, of which 133 were in the worst category, between 2006 and 2015. Having taken the pictures the Halesowen man posted many to a Russian website visited by paedophiles – but his offending was eventually brought to an end after FBI investigators found the images online and contacted the National Crime Agency. Wolverhampton Crown Court also heard Day had taken photos up the skirts of young girls without them knowing. He had also stolen underwear belonging to girls and women. Day was jailed for two years having pleaded guilty to six charges of taking indecent images of children, another of committing an act outraging public decency and a further three counts of theft. Prosecuting, Mr Gary Cook, said Day had posted a total of eight albums of images to the Russian website. He said: “US intelligence agencies oversee websites around the world including those people who have a sexual interest in children visit. “This was one of them. In one album this defendant posted 37 images. He described them as being of a young girl whose knickers and bra had been stolen. He said he had shared website chats with the girl. After US intelligence agencies had liaised with police in the UK, Day’s home in Olive Lane, was raided by officers. From it they seized two mobile phones, a tablet computer, a hard-drive, a flash-drive, and underwear with accompanying notes on who had owned them. They also found a picture of a woman from whom he had stolen underwear. Defending, Mr John Lucas, said the case was ‘odd’ in that Day had posted the images online for his ‘personal pleasure.’ He added: “The benefit in posting theses images would seem to me to be the defendants and the defendants alone. “Perhaps it was the ‘shock factor’ in putting them on the internet which somehow gave him that pleasure.” Judge Marcus Tregilgas-Davey said he accepted they had not been posted for profit but said he considered it to be distribution of the images. He also imposed a sexual prevention order on Day – who has no previous convictions – for a period of 10 years which prohibits him from engaging with children and other vulnerable people. Passing sentence, the judge added: “You made those images available to anyone else of a like mind and who also has a [sexual] interest in children.”