Paedophile who had ONE MILLION sickening images of child abuse is spared jail

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Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 12:40 AM on 10th January 2012

Southwark Crown Court heard Robert Barrow was an obsessive collector with little interest in the content of the pornographic material

Southwark Crown Court heard Robert Barrow was an obsessive collector with little interest in the content of the pornographic material

A paedophile found with the largest ever haul of child pornography ever seized by Scotland Yard has been spared jailed.

More than one million child porn images were seized at the home of 57-year-old Robert Barrow.

However, Barrow who admitted seven counts of making indecent images of children and two counts of possessing child porn with intent to distribute it was spared jail because he is a full-time carer to his 86-year-old mother who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and chronic arthritis.

Police seized more than one million images and movies in a dawn raid on Barrow’s home in Plaistow, east London, in August 2010, Southwark Crown Court heard. 

Barrow amassed the stash over 15 years which he then shared with other paedophiles online. 

He was sentenced to a year in jail, suspended for two years, and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders register for 10 years.

He was also made the subject of a curfew, a two-year supervision order and told he must undergo a sex offenders treatment programme. 

Sentencing Barrow, Judge Stephen Robbins told him: ‘Normally you could and would expect to receive an immediate custodial sentence, but this case is, in my view, totally exceptional because of the condition of your mother who is nearing the end of her life. 

‘I therefore can and will temper justice with mercy not to you but to your very sick mother. If you breach this order then you know where you will be going, straight to prison.’

The court heard Barrow, who has never had a sexual relationship and cannot be naked in front of anyone, suffers from obsessive personality disorder.

This causes him to obsessively collect items such as beer cans and bubble gum wrappers, which he also trades with other collectors as part of his own business. He has even kept every ticket for public transport he has ever got. 

Andrew Cohen, in mitigation for Barrow, said this obsession led to him collecting child porn even though he has little interest in the content of the material.

The Court ordered Barrow to sign the Sex Offenders register for 10 years and to undergo a sex offenders treatment programme

The Court ordered Barrow to sign the Sex Offenders register for 10 years and to undergo a sex offenders
treatment programme

Mr Cohen said: ‘In the last 15 years an obsession arose with collecting pornography. At the start it was ordinary and it descended from there. Yet the actual material is almost irrelevant to him. It is just the obsessive need to get more and more of whatever it is. 

‘He has no particular sexual urges with regard to children at all. He has never actually had a sexual relationship with anyone because of his obsession. He cannot be physically in contact with others or naked himself.
He has led a relatively isolated life really.’

Barrow was found with 901,700 indecent images and 18,797 movies on his computer and extra hard drives which he kept in his bedroom, which was a converted loft.  He also shared in excess of 160,000 images and 9,000 movies online which ranged in seriousness from a level one to level five. 

Barrow admitted seven counts of making indecent images of children and two counts of possessing the images with intent to distribute them.

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