February 2016 Paedophile downloaded thousands of child abuse images A man who admitted downloading thousands of images of child sexual abuse will not go to prison. Steven Carr, 34, had 3,635 indecent images of children as young as five on his computer. Salisbury Crown Court court heard Carr had actively searched for child abuse material and had refused to give police access to an encrypted folder on his computer. Carr, who lived in Salisbury when the offences were committed between 2011 and 2013, had no previous convictions. The court also heard Carr, now of Radcliffe Road, Drayton, Norwich, had a “very difficult medical background”, although precise details were not explained. Defending, Fern Russell said Carr was unsuitable for a sex offenders’ program – his medical problems meant group work was “utterly out of the question”. Sentencing Carr to a three-year supervision order and a five-year sexual harm prevention order, Judge Andrew Barnett said: “You have a number of difficulties, suffice to say you can’t relate as many people do to others. “You have a number of people who speak up for you. In many walks of your life you are very helpful, good and decent. “But I have to deal with you for these disgraceful offences. “It is much better for you and, more to the point, much better for society if I impose a very long community order on you.”