Published: Thursday, 8th May, 2008 08:35
Extended supervision for child porn offender
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JASON JORDAN
APPEAL judges have ruled that a paedophile who was caught with a hoard of internet child pornography should be supervised after his jail sentence for longer than had originally been ordered.
They determined on Friday that Dunfermline man Jason Jordan should receive the maximum extension period available to them of five years and four months for the protection of the public.
Jordan (44) was assessed as posing a significantly higher risk of further sex offending than average for such criminals.
The former process engineer had earlier admitted making indecent photos of children between 15th February and 2nd June 2004 at his house in Wedderburn Street.
Police searched the address after receiving information and took away computer equipment.
He was asked if he had an interest in images containing children and Jordan told them, “I’m a paedophile – let’s not mince words.”
Computer crime specialists found a total of 8073 still images and three video files containing indecent images of children. The cache included pictures of sex acts with babies.
Appeal judge Lord Nimmo Smith said, “By his own admission, he made the photographs in question by downloading and storing them, and did so for his own sexual gratification.
“The photographs showed sexual abuse of children, some of them very young, which can only be described as abominable – and the sexual gratification derived from them by him as depraved.”
The judge added, “The making of such photographs, even in the sense which he made his, is not a ‘victimless offence’.
“The appellant and people like him bear an indirect responsibility for the sexual abuse by creating a demand for photographs of it and thus for the commission of the abuse itself.”
Jordan, who has previous convictions for sex offences, was assessed as a very high risk of re-offending and a high risk of causing harm.
He was originally jailed for four years and eight months and ordered to be kept under supervision for a further four years. He was told he would have been imprisoned for seven years, but for his guilty plea.
But the sentence was challenged as incompetent because the maximum penalty is 10 years.
Lord Nimmo Smith and appeal judges Lord Eassie and Lady Smith were left to impose a new sentence on Jordan.
They decided that his jail term should stay at four years and eight months but ordered that he should be kept under supervision for five years and four months.
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