Two indecent category A images of a child and 156 prohibited images of a child were found.
5. Indecent images
Jeff Rodgers, aged 58, of Hayfield Walk, Kimberworth Park, Rotherham, sexually abused a victim during a period of over more than a year until May 2006 when the boy was a teenager.
Ian Goldsack, prosecuting, said the complainant, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, alerted police in 2019 and stated that he now has difficulties trusting anyone and he has struggled to maintain relationships.
The boy said he was ordered to masturbate while watching pornographic videos and he claimed the defendant gave him half a Viagra tablet.
Rodgers pleaded guilty to two counts of gross indecency with a child, two counts of inciting a boy aged under 16 to engage in a sexual activity, one count of engaging in a sexual activity in the presence of a child and one count of engaging in a sexual act with a boy.
Sheffield Crown Court heard Rodgers had previous convictions including a conviction for five sexual offences against three young males for which he received a custodial sentence in 2010.
Judge Michael Slater said he recognised Rodgers had already served a prison sentence and has since set about trying to rehabilitate himself.
He told Rodgers: “The risk I run is putting you back in prison and turning you into the man you were in 2010.”
Judge Slater sentenced Rodgers to two years of custody suspended for two years with an indefinite restraining order to keep away from the complainant. Photo: JPI Media
Sheffield Crown Court heard on January 25 how Liam Sanderson, aged 29, of Shawsfield Road, near Broom, Rotherham, was caught with 34 category A images, 68 category B images and 2,676 category C images on two electronic devices.
Judge David Dixon told Sanderson: “These offences are serious. They involved people carrying out horrendous acts of abuse with young children.
“And it seems a lot of the images you were looking at were particularly young children.”
The majority of the images were movies involving youngsters aged between five and 14-years-old which had been created between March, 2014, and January, 2019.
He received a suspended prison sentence.
The defendant, who has no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children relating to category A, B and C images, with category A being the most serious.
Aqsa Hussain, defending, said Sanderson had started looking at pornography when he was 12-years-old and became addicted and desensitised.
He was sentenced to 16 months of custody suspended for two years with a 30-day sex-offender programme and a 20-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirement.
Sanderson was also made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for five years. Photo: JPI Media
A man caught by police with indecent images of children on five electronic devices after a raid at his home narrowly avoided prison.
Sheffield Crown Court heard how Christopher Grimes, aged 37, of St Barnabas Road, Highfield, Sheffield, was caught with three category B images and 50 category C images which he had downloaded, with category C being the least serious on a scale where category A is regarded as the most serious.
Grimes was also caught with two prohibited images of children which had also been downloaded, according to the court.
Ian Goldsack, prosecuting, said police executed a search warrant at the defendant’s former home on Southey Green Road, Southey Green, Sheffield, on August 7, 2018, and Grimes was arrested and taken to a police station.
Grimes made “extensive admissions” of wrong-doing to the police, according to Mr Goldsack, and the defendant said that he alone was responsible for the offending linked to the material on five devices which included teenagers under the age of 16.
Grimes, who has no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to making three category B images and 50 category C images and to possessing two prohibited images of children from between July, 2013, and August, 2018.
Judge Sarah Wright told Grimes child pornography involves offences being committed against defenceless children and a consumer of such images causes others to make such material.
She sentenced Grimes to a two-year community order with a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement.
Grimes was placed on the Sex Offenders Register and made the subject of Sexual Harm Prevention Order for five years. Photo: JPI Media