2016 Pervert downloaded thousands of images of children as young as four  A former bus company worker who downloaded thousands of images of children as young as four being sexually abused was sent to jail. Anthony Michael Lewis, 36, previously of Camborne, pleaded guilty to eight counts of possessing indecent images of children and one count of possessing extreme indecent images. Truro Crown Court heard that police found more than 6,000 indecent images of children on his computer. Nearly 1,500 of these were classed as category A by the police, the most serious type, including videos. The court heard the children in the images were aged as young as four years old. Philip Lee, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “He had accessed child pornography using peer-to-peer software and he had done it for ten years or so. “He said that he was particularly attracted to girls of 11 to 15 years of age and he admitted accessing extreme pornography. “There was evidence of him using this peer-to-peer software and there was evidence of him searching for images relating to child pornography.” The 6,000 images were collected over the past two years, the court heard. The court was told Lewis had co-operated fully with the police after he was arrested and admitted what he had done. Judge Simon Carr said: “I accept you are a man of impeccable character apart from these crimes. “I say it often in cases like this but it bears repeating – around the world hundreds of thousands of children are sexually abused because of you and others like you are willing to download these images. “It is a market because people like you are prepared to download these images. “On your computer was found 6,000 images of children. “This is an exceptional number of images over a long period of time.” Lewis was given a two-month prison sentence for possessing extreme pornography and ten months for each of the eight child pornography charges to be served concurrently.