Locations
Ferry Road, Heckingham, Norwich, NR14
Description
A convicted sex offender has been jailed after police discovered horrific images of child abuse on his mobile phone.
Matthew Rout, who had previously been convicted of making indecent images of children in 2017, got involved with conversations with others paedophiles on the KIK online platform.
Norwich Crown Court heard the 39-year-old told them he had previously had sex with young girls and shared a video of a one-year-old being raped.
Hollie Davies-Regan, prosecuting, said police became aware of indecent images being uploaded to the internet via an account linked to Rout.
Police attended his address and seized 17 devices, including a Samsung mobile phone on which indecent images and videos were found.
They included 373 still images and 151 videos at category A - the most serious - 307 category B images and 28 videos and 278 category C images and 18 videos.
Miss Davies-Regan said Rout also distributed indecent images and videos in 13 separate conversations he had with other users.
He stated to those he was having conversations with he was "interested" in children aged 0 to eight with "no limits at all".
He also stated an interest in "raping young boys" as well as dogs and young children.
Rout, of Ferry Road, Heckingham, near Loddon appeared at court for sentencing on Tuesday.
He had previously admitted five counts of making indecent photos of a child and five offences of distributing indecent photos of a child.
He also admitted possession of extreme pornographic images.
Jailing Rout for 32 months, Judge Alice Robinson said of "significant concern" was his claims he had "sexually abused" young girls in the past and his encouragement of others to "rape children".
Andrew Oliver, mitigating, said Rout's strongest mitigation was his guilty pleas.
He said Rout became invoked in "fantasy chat" which was "utterly morally repugnant" although there was no evidence he had been involved in any contact offences with children.
The barrister said Rout was "totally disgusted by his conduct".
Rout was made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) for life and also put on the sex offenders register for life.