CBBC actor Daniel Frogson downloaded 848 sick child abuse images | 08MVI52 | 2024-02-27 21:08:01
CBBC actor Daniel Frogson downloaded 848 sick child abuse images | 08MVI52 | 2024-02-27 21:08:01
CBBC and His Dark Materials actor Daniel Frogson, who was nominated for a Bafta award, has been found guilty of downloading sick youngster abuse footage.
Frogson, who starred as Tony Costa within the fantasy drama and in youngsters' TV present Joe All Alone, seen 848 indecent pictures, including 165 of probably the most critical class which usually exhibits adults raping youngsters.
The 21-year-old had been accessing the horrific photographs because the age of 17, Nottingham Crown Courtroom heard. He had pleaded responsible to the possession of indecent pictures.
Frogson was handed an eight-month jail sentence, suspended for 24 months.
Beneath the suspended sentence, he was ordered by the decide to participate in a 43-day sex offender's rehabilitation programme and attend an extra 15 rehabilitation periods.
He was additionally placed on the intercourse offender register for ten years and given a five-year sexual hurt prevention order.
Handing Frogson the sentence, decide Steven Coupland stated based on Nottinghamshire Live: 'The pictures I've seen are sickening. Every of them is an actual youngster being abused for the pleasure of someone like you watching.
'It is made worse due to the variety of them – there have been 848 indecent pictures – and it's made worse by the size of time you have been doing it. You informed the probation officer you would not have a sexual curiosity in youngsters. I don't accept that.'
Officers have been first alerted to youngster abuse pictures being downloaded from an IP tackle in Nuthall, the place the defendant was dwelling, in early 2023.
That yr, Frogson appeared as Wilf in movie The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, which additionally starred Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton.
Prosecuting, Nicola Patten stated: 'Two units have been seized and the defendant was arrested; on them have been 165 category A photographs, 88 class B and 592 class C. There have been also three prohibited pictures of youngsters and search terms displaying a sexual curiosity in youngsters.
'He was interviewed twice in 2023 and on each events answered "no comment" to the question he was asked.'
Mitigating, his defence lawyer Lauren Manuel stated Frogson had carried out 'very nicely' in his appearing career although was working at present in development between auditions and the result of the trial.
Frogson's first credit score was in TV collection Joe All Alone in 2018 for which he was nominated for the Young Performer award within the Youngsters's Baftas.
He also starred in The Devil Outdoors and The Final Bus.
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