Kingswinford pervert avoids jail (From Stourbridge News)

Kingswinford pervert avoids jail

4:41pm Tuesday 23rd January 2007 in Local

A 58-YEAR-OLD Kingswinford man described as a "good husband, father, neighbour and friend" has avoided jail despite downloading nearly 200 pornographic pictures of kids.

Terence Lowe, of Oak Crescent, admitted 22 charges of making indecent images of children and another charge of possessing the indecent images.

Judge Nicholas Webb at Wolverhampton Crown Court today (Tuesday) gave him a three-year Community Rehabilitation Order with a condition he attends the sex offender's programme.

He further ruled he should register as a Sex Offender for five years and barred him from having contact with anyone under 18 without the permission of a Probation Officer and told him he could not work with youngsters under 18.

He said: "A significant number of these images were of a particularly distressing and unpleasant nature involving the infliction of pain on the children concerned."

Miss Blondelle Thompson, prosecuting, told the court police officers acting on information from the US searched Lowe's home and seized CDs and floppy discs.

She said they contained nearly 200 indecent images of children aged between two and 13.

When interviewed Lowe told police he was horrified by what he had done.

Mr Nicholas Cartwright, defending, said: "He simply did not have the courage to tell his wife, his son and friends of the family he was getting what little sexual gratification that was available to him by looking at the internet."

He said Lowe was a man of impeccable character before he committed the offences.