December 2014 Care home manager jailed for posting child abuse images on Facebook A care home manager has been jailed for posting depraved images of child abuse on Facebook and other chat websites. Kevin Birkett distributed movies showing girls as young as six being forced to take part in sex acts with adults on websites where they could be seen by anyone who logged onto them. He was jailed after a Judge told him that children using the chat sites could have come across what he described as depraved images. Birkett, 38, has lost his job as manager of a care home for adults with learning difficulties in Teignmouth and has been forced to move out of the home where he lived in the town with his wife and three children. He claimed he had no sexual interest in children and posted the material on the web to try and trap others who may respond to it. Birkett, of Great Western Close, Paignton, admitted four counts of distributing indecent images and five of making them. He was jailed for 16 months by Judge Francis Gilbert, QC, at Exeter Crown Court. The Judge told him: “It does not reduce the seriousness of what you did that you say you did not this for a sexual motivation. “Whatever the motive, to distribute such dreadful images without any restriction in the internet by Facebook meant they were available to anyone, including children. “You did it over three years and that is very, very serious criminal conduct. They included movies of girls aged six to ten being compelled to have oral sex with adult men. “These were appallingly depraved pictures and you put them on the internet where anyone who happened upon them could look at them. “You sent them when you were having sexual chats without knowing who the other parties were. You admit you knew it was illegal and very serious. “You are not unintelligent. You were the manager of a care home. You have lost that job and there is no question of you ever going back.” Sean Brunton, prosecuting, said the images covered all categories of seriousness and had been posted onto external websites including Facebook and chat sites. Lee Bremridge, defending, said Birkett hds lost his job and contact with his three young children as a result of the case. He said he entered his plea on the basis that he had no sexual motivation in downloading or distributing the images.