Locations
Cove House Gardens, Ashton Keynes, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN6
Description
A woman who was given a sexual harm prevention order after pleading guilty to making hundreds of child sex abuse images has been jailed after she breached the order.
Samantha Franklin, 35, of Cove House Gardens, Ashton Keynes, was given a suspended prison sentence on December 8 as well as a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
However, on January 13, she was arrested once again after she was found to have breached the order on five separate occasions, just days after it was issued.
She appeared at Swindon Magistrates Court on January 14 and pleaded guilty to five counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order.
She was sentenced to 50 weeks imprisonment and ordered to pay a £187 surcharge.
Detective Constable Jason Walsh, from the Child Internet Exploitation Team, said:
“I am really pleased that Franklin has been given a prison sentence – she has continued to offend since she was sentenced in December by breaching the terms of her sexual harm prevention order.
"She has shown a total disregard for the court system and seems to have totally underestimated the seriousness of her own offending and the SHPO she was issued with.
"I hope she spends her prison sentence reflecting on the crimes she has committed – there is no place in society for people who behave in this way.”