May 2021

Man sent to young offender’s institute for sexual communication with child

A man has been sent to a young offenders’ institute after he admitted sexual communications with a young girl.

Steven Charles Harrison, of Clwyd Street in Rhyl, appeared at Caernarfon Crown Court on Wednesday.

January 2021

Rhuddlan web designer jailed for distributing child sexual abuse images

A web designer was jailed for 16 months after he admitted distributing child sexual abuse images to another paedophile

James Tolmie, aged 59, of Castle Street, Rhuddlan, also pleaded guilty to possessing indecent images of children when police raided a property at Abergele last May and a computer was seized.

Judge Nicola Jones ordered the defendant to register as a sex offender and made a sexual harm prevention order for ten years.

She said one child shown in the images had been bound in a painful manner.

“Only an immediate custodial sentence is appropriate,” the judge declared.

January 2021

Paedophile found with sick images describing children as ‘fertile’ and ‘good to go’

A paedophile was found to have hundreds of indecent images of children, including one of a 10-year-old girl labelled “good to go”.

Filip Jonczyk, 21, of Well Street, Ruthin pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent photographs of children.

A judge at Mold Crown Court said there was a chance he could be rehabilitated and gave him a 16-month jail term suspended for two years.

The court heard police arrested Jonczyk at his home in Ruthin on December 10 last year.

Prosecutor Oliver King said officers seized two laptop computers and a mobile phone. On the laptops, they found 118 still images and 111 videoes in the most serious Category A.

There were also 179 still and 48 moving images in Category B and 1,888 still and 17 moving images in Category C.

The prosecutor said the images and videos indicated a sexual interest in children – mainly girls – aged three to 15.

He said deleted folders were hidden on the computers’ hard drives and concealed within other folders.

He said folders had names such as “Delightfully little playthings”, “Girls, girls, girls” and “Titan topless teens”.

And a photo of a 10-year-old girl was captioned: “The law says ‘Five more years’. Biology says ‘Good to go’. Science wins.”

In another caption, in Polish, a six-year-old girl was described as “fertile”.

gave him the 16-month suspended jail term for the first count of offences involving Category A images and videoes, and eight and four months suspended jail terms respectively for the other two counts involving Category B and Category C images.

She told the defendant: “You attempted to hide the folders in a sophisticated folder system and there is a large number of different victims.”

But she also said he must do 60 days of rehabilitation activity, and he was given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years.

October 2020

Two perverts jailed for child sex offences

A couple who committed multiple sexual offences against a young child and who possessed images of child rape have been jailed.

Janos Barber, 28, from Church View, Chirk, Wrexham (pictured right), was jailed for eight years and 10 months and Samuel Clarke (left), 30, of Chapel Lane, Chirk, for six years and eight months.

Recorder Duncan Bould said the pair, who lived together, been caught up in distorted thought processes and paedophilic tendencies which they acted out.

He said their victim had been caused untold damage and said he had the utmost sympathy for the boy’s mother whose “tortured” words, saying how her heart was broken, were read to the court in a victim impact statement.

The men were sentenced at Mold Crown Court yesterday after pleading guilty to magistrates at an earlier hearing.

Barber admitted two charges of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, two of sexual assault against a child and two of committing a sexual act in the presence of a child.

He also admitted charges of the possession of indecent images and one case of voyeurism.

Clarke admitted three counts of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child and the possession of indecent images.

Mr Simon Rogers, prosecuting, said police carried out a search of the defendants’ flat in Church View on June 1 after being informed by a social media platform that two videos involving children had been uploaded by a phone in the flat.

A search was made of the premises and a USB stick found containing videos and photographs of a boy involved in sexual activity. The two defendants both featured in the videos.

In addition, equipment found in the flat contained no less than 120,000 still images and videos of child abuse. This included more than 1,000 of the highest category of seriousness including the rape of a baby, Mr Rogers said.

Barber also admitted recording video footage of boys dressing and undressing at a swimming pool. He had hidden a camera inside a rucksack, Mr Rogers said.

Both men, appearing on video link from HMP Berwyn Prison, broke down during the hearing.

The court was told that Barber had expressed remorse for the impact his offences had had on his victim and victim’s family.

Mr Recorder Bould told the men that their depraved actions would be met with disgust and revulsion by right-minded members of the public.

He said: “We have heard the tortured words of the victim’s mother and I have every sympathy for her.”

As well as jailing both defendants Mr Recorder Bould placed them on the sex offenders register indefinitely and said they would never be able to work with children.