Convicted paedophile caught filming children by neighbour jailed after police found thousands of indecent images on computer

Finally a defense lawyer who didn't try to defend the behavior of his client. This predators lawyer made it clear that his client had confessed to the crimes and there was nothing else he needed to add. Usually there are comments like; my client won't do well in prison, or he has impeccable character/ Some of the arguments defense lawyers make on behave of these child predators makes me nauseous. I understand wholeheartedly that every person has a right to a good defense. I'm not saying that child predators don't. I am saying that making excuses for people who harm children is not something I would want to have to answer to, come judgement day.

I am glad this man is off the streets. He was only jailed for 3 years even though he had another conviction in 2006. For those who say get rid of the sexual offender registry I ask do you think this predator should have to be on the registry? He harmed children you know that right? I know I'm on a roll lately with this topic but it just doesn't seem right being against a registry that lets others know when a child sexual predator is in their neighborhood. If it makes their life hard I say THEN DON'T TOUCH LITTLE CHILDREN IN THE FIRST PLACE. Going to jail for 3 years isn't serving your time and receiving a tabula rasa. A child predator shouldn't be allowed a clean slate. When the day comes that children (who become adults)  can get a clean slate from their abuse they've suffered that's when those who harm children should get  a clean slate. As a survivor of pedophilia and someone who still deals with the effects of surviving multiple traumas I know first hand the life sentence a child gets. It makes me so mad to think there are those that think this abuse isn't any big deal. While I am not one to wallow in self-pity the reality is that the long term affects of child sexual abuse last a life time. That is something I want those who believe the registry should be outlawed to really understand. That and that most child predators abuse anywhere from 100 to 400 times before their caught and that unless they take responsibility for their actions, get treatment, and stick to their treatment they will continue to prey on children.  We always have to remember that children are our future. Stepping off my soap box, Rosie

MIchael Lewis
Published on Saturday 21 April 2012 07:20

THE fears of concerned parents who reported a neighbour for filming children playing in their Northampton street were confirmed when police discovered the convicted paedophile had an extensive library of child sex abuse images.
Michael Lewis, aged 51, was arrested after being spotted using a camcorder to film children playing in Northampton on April 4 last year.
Officers discovered he had indeed been filming the children but also found that not only had he recently been released from prison for sexual offences against children but he also had more than 8,000 images and videos of other children being sexually abused.
James McLernon, prosecuting at Northampton Crown Court, said two computers were seized and examined and found to hold 8,700 indecent images, including 126 images and 12 videos of the second most serious kind, depicting adults sexually raping children, downloaded from the internet.
Lewis, now of no fixed address, was jailed for four years at Birmingham Crown Court in December 2006 for sexual assaults of children aged under 13 years.
Placed on the sex offenders’ register for life and still on licence following his release from prison, he was banned from accessing the internet.

 The self-confessed paedophile, who pleaded guilty to 13 offences of making and possessing indecent images, was jailed for three years yesterday. Judge Sylvia de Bertodano also made him subject to an indefinite sexual offences’ prevention order (SOPO) intended to limit access to children.
She said: “These, as you know, are very serious offences. The images clearly show the very real situation of girls as young as three of four being criminally exploited, raped and sexually abused which the vast majority of the general public would find horrifying.
“Were it not for this market of exploitation, this would not be happening on a massive scale. By downloading these images you are making a significant contribution to the abuse of children. I have no doubt whatsoever, you pose a significant risk of serious harm to children by the commission of further offences against them and from what I have read and heard about you, you agree with that analysis.”
Steven Evans, mitigating, said Lewis has admitted he has a sexual predilection towards children, adding: “There’s very little I can say about the offences because he made full admissions when interviewed. If he could take tablets or have an injection to stop it, he would.
“He knows he is going to prison and he knows children need to be protected.”

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