April 2014
Pervert who downloaded 40,000 indecent images of children not sent to jail
A JUDGE has taken pity on a 34-year-old man caught with 40,000 indecent images of children, because he is the sole carer for his sick mother.
Vernon Gonsalves admitted possessing the worst category of sado-masochistic films and images of child abuse when officers swooped on his Long Eaton home.
He told detectives he was “addicted to downloading” the images but “did not feel sexually aroused” by them.
Derby Crown Court was this morning told how the 34-year-old “was unable to form relationships” and had looked after his ill mother for 23 years.
Judge John Pini QC spared Gonsalves jail and instead handed him a three-year community order with supervision.
He told the defendant, of Kedlestone Close: “In many respects this is a very sad case because this is a man who has lived a hermetically-sealed life for 23 years and sole carer for his sick mother and the one outlet that he has had has been the internet.”
Gonsalves, who pleaded guilty to six counts of downloading indecent images, was also told to do 100 hours unpaid work and handed a sex offenders prevention order for five years.
