Locations
Obelisk Road, Southampton, SO19
Description
A pervert used hidden cameras to film a young boy, Southampton Crown Court heard.
Scott Sharman secretly filmed a pre-teen child undressing and bathing, but later denied knowledge of the technology, telling police he could not remember doing it.
His offending emerged after indecent images were found on his mobile phone.
Prosecutor Keely Harvey said the images, reported to police, included children as young as a few weeks old... on the defendants phone.
The 39-year-old was arrested at home, his phone seized.
Ms Harvey said: The defendant told police he liked younger men and had, as he described it, a little problem. But the pictures showed children in their first few weeks of infancy.
It was at this point the officers were still looking on his phone when they saw still and moving images of the... boy.
It came to light the defendant had set up a hidden camera which filmed the boy getting dressed and undressed.
On one occasion, Sharman touched the boy over his groin and private area and filmed it, Ms Harvey said.
When the boy caught Sharman filming him urinating behind a bush, he told him to go away and said what he was doing was paedophilic.
In his second interview, Sharman denied filming the boy, claiming videos and images were taken accidentally, and said: He said he was not sexually interested in young boys.
Defence lawyer Stephen Tricker said Sharman struggled after his marriage breakdown and is an isolated man.
He added: He is in denial and is shameful and has an inability to acknowledge it because of fear and retribution. The difficulty is his lack of acceptance of what he has done.
Sharman, of Obelisk Road, admitted four charges of voyeurism, assaulting a boy under 13, three charges of making indecent images, possession of a prohibited child image, and taking indecent photos of a child.
Judge Nicholas Rowland said he could sense no remorse from him at all, and denial is an understatement.
Sharman was jailed for three years, given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order, and must register with police for life.