NORWICH MAN JAILED FOR CHILD ABUSE IMAGES AND ONLINE CHATS
A convicted sex offender has been jailed after police discovered horrific images of child abuse on his mobile phone.Matthew Rout, who had previously been convicted of making indecent images of children in 2017, got involved with conversations with other paedophiles on the KIK online platform.
Norwich Crown Court heard the 39-year-old told them he had previously had sex with young girls and shared a video of a one-year-old being raped.
Police attended his address and seized 17 devices, including a Samsung mobile phone on which indecent images and videos were found.
They included 373 still images and 151 videos at category A - the most serious - 307 category B images and 28 videos and 278 category C images and 18 videos.
He stated to those he was having conversations with that he was "interested" in children aged 0 to eight with "no limits at all".
He also stated an interest in "raping young boys" as well as dogs and young children.
Rout, of HMP Norwich but previously of Ferry Road, Heckingham, near Loddon, appeared at court for sentencing on Tuesday.
Jailing Rout for 32 months, Judge Alice Robinson said a "significant concern" was his claims he had "sexually abused" young girls in the past and his encouragement of others to "rape children".
Andrew Oliver, mitigating, said Rout's strongest mitigation was his guilty pleas.
He said Rout became involved in "fantasy chat" which was "utterly morally repugnant" although there was no evidence he had been involved in any contact offences with children.
Rout was made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) for life and also put on the sex offenders register for life.
