January 2017 Paedophile spared jail after judge claims public are “better protected” by him being in community When the police seized a man’s computer they found movie clips of children as young as one being sexually abused by adults. But a judge has decided the public will be “better protected” by Daniel Taylor having treatment and doing unpaid work than by him being jailed. Self confessed paedophile Daniel Taylor, 26, of St Mary’s Crescent, Leamington, had pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to three charges of making indecent images of children. He was given a three-year community order and ordered to take part in a three-year sex offender’s treatment programme, and to do 60 hours of unpaid work. Recorder Christopher Hotten QC also made Taylor subject to a rehabilitation activity for 30 days and ordered him to register as a sex offender for five years and to pay £600 costs. Sentencing Taylor, Recorder Hotten told him: “The seriousness of what you did is that without consumers, there’s no market. “Everybody who downloads images such as these helps to create a market and provides a reason for children to be abused in the appalling way these children were. “That is what you have done. Sitting alone in your room, it isolates you from what is going on all to children over the world in appalling circumstances. “But it seems to me the most important thing is to do what can be done to deter you from behaving in this way in the future. “Although this clearly passes the custody threshold, the public is likely to be better protected by my not sending you to prison today.” Prosecutor James Dunstan said that in August 2015 the police went to Taylor’s home after receiving intelligence that someone at the address had been downloading indecent material of children. The door was answered by his partner, but when the officers then spoke to Taylor he told them they would find images on his red laptop, and showed them where it was. The laptop and a memory stick were seized, and Taylor, who had downloaded images using a file-sharing app, was arrested. When the police examined the laptop and the memory stick they found a total of 245 indecent images of children, all but five of which were movies. They were all accessible to the user, not having been deleted after being viewed, and had file names which were explicit about their content, said Mr Dunstan. There were 110 category A images showing children being subjected to the worst kind of abuse, along with 128 category B images and seven category C images. And Mr Dunstan said that explicit search terms used by Taylor showed he had specifically been looking for indecent images of both girls and boys. When he was interviewed Taylor admitted he had downloaded “a couple of hundred” images of children over the previous six to nine months, which he said he had initially done out of curiosity, but admitted getting sexual satisfaction from them.