Paedophile caught with animation of child abuse and vile video of dog.

Man Jailed for Possession of Child Abuse Images and Animal Abuse Video

Steven McLone, 31, has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for possessing explicit material depicting child sexual abuse and animal abuse.

Police were alerted to the illegal content McLone was accessing via his IP address and raided his Middlesbrough address in October 2021. McLone was already subject to a sexual harm prevention order at the time.

During the raid, specialist police IT workers found a variety of illegal materials on McLone's computer, including:

• 1 class B image of a child (aged 5-7) being sexually abused
• 5 class C images of children (aged 9-11) being sexually abused
• 47 prohibited images of children
• A video of a woman sexually abusing a dog

The court heard that McLone had bookmarked animated child abuse as a favorite on his internet explorer and had downloaded files with titles such as "My baby girls" and inappropriate descriptions of a two-year-old child.

McLone pleaded guilty to two counts of making indecent images of a child, possession of prohibited images of a child, and possession of an extreme pornographic image portraying sex with an animal.

During sentencing, Judge Howard Crowson expressed doubt about McLone's claim that he was not sexually aroused by the images, citing his previous convictions for sexual assault of underage girls.

McLone was also made subject to sex offender notifications for 10 years.