Oliver Cadden, A paedophile from Stafford who was caught with 50,000 vile child sex abuse pictures has been locked up. Oliver Cadden had ‘almost an industrial scale’ of disgusting indecent images.
Many of the images downloaded by the sex offender, 43, were of children under the age of 10, Stafford Crown Court heard. Police found images and videos of abused youngsters on a storage tower and external hard drive in Stafford.
Oliver Cadden has now been jailed for 16 months for his offending. It comes after a judge said he had a ‘deep-seated’ sexual interest in children.
The material was downloaded between August 24, 2019, and April 7, 2020, StaffordshireLive reports. Oliver Cadden admitted three counts of making indecent photographs/pseudo-photographs of children and another charge of possessing an extreme pornographic image.
He also admitted a charge of possessing extreme images. Prosecutor Andrew Wallace said the images involved girls and boys.
Oliver Cadden used search words such as “pre-teen” and “hardcore”. The defendant was caught with 12,163 of the most serious category A images, which included 831 being videos.
There was also 8,458 category B, with 410 videos and 31,800 that were category C with more than 400 videos. During a police interview on September 27, 2021, Oliver Cadden accepted responsibility for downloading the images on the devices and replied no comment to questions about sharing the files.
Jason Holt, defending, said Oliver Cadden had sought help for his offending and was remorseful for what he had done. He had written to the judge along with his father, brother and ex-wife, who he still has a good relationship with.
Mr Holt said: “He doesn’t shy away from what’s behind his offending and sorting these problems out. He’s starting to come to terms with that behaviour.”
Judge John Edwards said he would give full credit for the guilty plea and how honest he was in the letter and told Oliver Cadden he could ‘see you are genuinely remorseful’, adding this was his first kind of any criminal activity he had been involved in.
However, he said those that go into this “cesspit from the dark web” only encourage the abuse of children to continue.
The judge said that the volume alone suggested a ‘deep-seated, engraved sexual interest in children’. Oliver Cadden, of Elworthy Close, in Beaconside, Stafford, was jailed for 16 months and made the subject of a five-year sexual harm prevention order and will spend 10 years on the sexual offences register.
It was ordered that the computer and all of the materials were destroyed.
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