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A lonely motorcycle instructor who was desperate to make friends online was found with more than 3,370 sickening images and videos of child pornography and 280 of bestiality.
Socially isolated paedophile Daniel White exchanged X-rated online messages with a woman who had sent him a picture of her daughter and asked her whether she had done anything sexual to the girl.
He was helping to fuel the "disgusting trade" in the sexual abuse of young children because he was "deriving pleasure" from the vile images, Hull Crown Court heard.
White, 23, of Jenthorpe, Orchard Park estate, Hull, admitted making and distributing indecent images of children and possessing extreme pornography between 2015 and 2020.
Charlotte Noddings, prosecuting, said that police received information that White had been using a Twitter account to upload images of children to the internet. A mobile phone was also linked to this.
White had 1,314 images of children in the most serious Category A, 629 of which were videos, and 1,021 images in Category B, with 125 of them movies, as well as 1,036 images in Category C, including 66 videos.
They showed "extremely young girls" aged between six and 14. He also had 280 images of extreme pornography showing bestiality, one of them a movie.
White had been involved in online sexual conversations, including one with a woman who had sent him a picture of her daughter. He had asked her if she had done anything sexual with her.
White claimed to the police that he became aware of the images by accident. "He didn't report them because he didn't want anything to come back to him," said Miss Noddings.
"He denied any sexual attraction to children."
Charlotte Baines, mitigating, said that White originally used social media sites because he had been socially isolated and wanted to make friends. "He is an emotionally lonely man and has never had an intimate relationship with someone," said Miss Baines.
"He had a desire for a relationship and belonging somewhere, attitudes that enabled this type of offence. He was then drawn in to an online world where sexualised chats were commonplace.
"It all took a much more sinister turn in the commission of these offences. He did not extricate himself and actively participated in sexual behaviour."
White, a qualified mechanic, had worked as a motorcycle instructor but could no longer do that because he would be training or instructing people who might be under 18.
Judge Peter Kelson QC told White: "This crime which you have committed is not a victimless crime. Just because we don't have the children in this courtroom giving evidence of what was done to them does not mean that there are no victims. Quite the contrary.
"These images of those children that you were deriving pleasure from are evidence of crimes being committed.
"There were victims and you were furthering this disgusting trade by sharing these videos. Appropriate punishment can only be achieved through immediate custody."
White was jailed for two years and was given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order. His mobile phone, laptop and tablet computer will be forfeited.