A WARWICKSHIRE man who gained sexual pleasure from ‘vile images’ of people having sex with animals will face ‘public humiliation’.
Phillip Love from Great Alne, near Alcester, pleaded guilty to publishing an obscene article and seven charges of possessing extreme pornography – one charge for each type of animal involved.
The 34-year-old was given a three-year community order, ordered to take part in a sex offenders’ programme a rehabilitation activity, 120 hours of unpaid work, and to pay costs.
After Love sent messages to vigilantes who had joined a messaging app he used with ‘like-minded’ people, a sting operation took place and his phone was seized.
Officers found 201 videos and 80 images of extreme pornography showing men and women involved in penetrative sex acts with animals, including horses, dogs, a pig – and even a snake.
Judge Bond told Love: “Your public humiliation is now complete, because you know when people meet you and they recognise your name, the first thing that will go through their mind is that you’re the man who gains sexual pleasure from viewing these vile images of men and women having penetrative sex with a variety of animals.
“There were 80 images and 201 videos recovered from your phone, and you were on Kik so you could chat with other people with a like perverted state of mind.
“These images are not victimless. The people viewing the images sit there thinking ‘I’m not causing anyone any harm.’ You need to realise you are. Every person who views such imagery sees victims of sexual offending.
“Often these women, and men even, in your case, are people who are trafficked from one country to another, sometimes as slaves, and they are forced to perform these degrading, perverted and disgusting sexual acts.
“Any right-minded individual viewing these images would find it disgusting.
“There would be no thing wrong in me imposing a short custodial sentence today – but I ask myself ‘what will that achieve?’”
