Porn pervert dad goes free (From Stourbridge News)

Porn pervert dad goes free

9:39am Friday 2nd February 2007 in Local

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

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 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."

But he added: "I accept you acted as you did out of sexual curiosity however deviant that may be."

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

She said they were found to contain nearly 200 indecent images of children aged between two and 13.

When interviewed Lowe told police he was horrified by what he had done and he accepted it was totally wrong.

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, who walks with a stick, was a man of impeccable character before he committed the offences.