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A Somerset man has been jailed for 23 months after pleading guilty to making indecent photographs of a child.
Edward Brooks, 52, from Minehead, appeared at Taunton Crown Court on Monday (April 1).
He was sentenced to just under two years in prison after admitting to two counts of making indecent photographs of a child - four months for each count to run consecutively and concurrently, and a further 19 months for breaching a suspended sentence order.
He was also told he would be added to the sex offenders register for a minimum of 10 years, handed a victim surcharge of 140 and told that all the images in his possession would be destroyed.
He was found not guilty of possessing indecent or pseudo-photographs of a child.
Commenting on the verdict, children's charity NSPCC said more needed to be done to tackle the sharing of child abuse images.
A spokesman said: Behind Edward Brookss sickening collection of images and videos are countless children that will have suffered harrowing, traumatic and life changing abuse.
"He has rightly been sent to prison from where he must be made to undertake an intensive programme of rehabilitation.
The scale of Brooks offending also highlights how big this twisted industry has become and the necessity for the authorities and the tech companies to work in unison to disrupt and ultimately destroy the networks that make and share this terrible content.