Porn man was searching for boy pictures

Mar 26 2008 by Elizabeth Keen, South Wales Echo

A MAN has admitted 17 charges relating to child pornography but claimed he was only looking for pictures of boys not girls.

David Taylor, 40, formerly of Hazelwood Place, Cardiff, pleaded guilty to four charges of possessing indecent photographs of children and 13 counts of making indecent images of youngsters being abused, when he appeared at Cardiff Crown Court.

James Evans, prosecuting, said on a scale of one to five, 109 of the many still images found at Taylor’s home were at the high level of four.

There was also a level four movie on his computer.

The lawyer said Taylor had put forward his guilty pleas on a basis which was to be presented to the court.

In it, he claimed firstly that when searching the internet he was looking for pictures of young boys and not girls and secondly that he had never shared any of his pictures by passing them on to others.

He was said to have no previous convictions of any kind.

Judge Christopher Llewellyn-Jones QC called for reports before passing sentence on Taylor, who is now living with his sister in Rotherham.

But he warned him: “Don’t take the fact I am bailing you meanwhile as any indication of the sentence which will be imposed.”