A 24-year-old Christchurch man has been jailed after being caught with thousands of "grotesque" child porn images, described by a judge as the most offensive he's ever come across. Joshua Alan Bainton, 24, admitted viewing a "vast" 13,400 files over a nine-month period, with victims from as young as 6 months old, up to about 14 years old, Christchurch District Court heard today. The material was the "most repellent and grotesque material imaginable", Judge Tom Gilbert said. As a prosecutor and judge of 15 years, Judge Gilbert said he couldn't remember material as offensive as this, "and that is saying something". Bainton, of Christchurch, earlier pleaded guilty to five representative charges of possession of an objectionable publication.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 04, 2021 03:33 UTC