Locations
Hume Avenue, Tilbury, Essex, RM18
Description
A PAEDOPHILE who posed as a young girl online was found with 550 child abuse images.
Officers from the Essex Police Online Investigation Team (POLIT) raided the address of Scott Chapman in Hume Close, Tilbury back on December 4, 2019.
The team, which investigates online child abuse, had received intelligence that the internet at the address had been used to view indecent images of children.
Following searches there and at another address, officers seized a mobile phone which could be attributed to Chapman on which they found more than 550 indecent images of children.
They also found several social media applications on which Chapman had posed as a young girl or sent indecent images to others.
The 24-year-old was charged with three counts of making indecent images of children and three counts of distributing indecent images of children.
He admitted the offences and at Basildon Crown Court and was jailed for seven years.