October 2011

MAN CAUGHT WITH WORST PORN EVER SEEN IN CUMBRIA JAILED BY CARLISLE COURT

A man caught with some of the worst pornography ever seen in Cumbria has been sent to prison and banned from working with children.

Police found the 27 pictures – which included images involving a horse – when they examined 44-year-old David Kluck’s laptop after he sent sexual messages to an 11-year-old girl.

At Carlisle Crown Court, Judge Paul Batty QC said the “truly revolting” images were the worst he had ever seen.

Kluck, who used to live in west Cumbria but is recently of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to possessing “extreme pornography” – an offence seldom seen in court.

Kluck also admitted possessing more than 100 pornographic pictures of children, including some of children engaging in sexual activity with adults.

And he also pleaded guilty to an offence of misusing the telecommunications system by sending the suggestive messages to the girl.

Prosecutor Beck McGregor said the offences came to light when the girl’s mother saw Kluck’s message on a computer.

She said that Kluck admitted enjoying adult and child pornography to police but insisted he did not have a predilection for children.

In mitigation, defence barrister Kim Whittlestone said that as a result of the offences Kluck had been beaten up twice.

He spent three days in hospital as a result of the second incident and was remanded in custody for his own protection when last month he appeared in court so badly battered and bruised he could hardly stand up.

Kluck was jailed for a total of two years and four months and ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years.

He was also banned indefinitely from working with children, from having unsupervised contact with girls under 16, from using a computer unless it is fitted with police-approved monitoring software and from using the internet to contact girls.