texts from teenage paedo who fantasised about abusing infants
Alan Gray, 19, of Greenock, accessed nearly 20,000 horrific images of young children and infants being abused
A TEENAGE paedophile who fantasised about kidnapping, raping and murdering babies has been jailed for five years.
Sick Alan Gray, 19, sent text messages outlining the most extreme sexual violence against “days old” babies - and in one chilling message stated: “I’d rape 10-a-day ha ha.”
He was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday after it was found he had nearly 20,000 horrific images of young children and infants being abused.
He had even organised the videos of sadistic sexual assaults on both male and female babies into specific folders on his laptop computer.
The pervert had pleaded guilty to the “worst sexual offences” case a sheriff had ever heard of at Greenock Sheriff Court last month.
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Gray’s solicitor told the court: “What he has engaged in is abhorrent and appalling behaviour.
“It is repugnant and reflects what clearly is a deep rooted problem that he has.
“In any civilised society, this behaviour is brutal, repugnant and horrible.”
Gray – who began accessing online pornography when he was 13 – revelled in an online exchange with a fellow pervert on the Kik Messenger app, texting: “I’d kill 25 newborns a night. No mercy.”
He added: “They should always be crying and never have a happy moment in their lives. They’re just there for us to abuse”.
In another Kik conversation, he tormented a user who stated that she was 13, asking her intimate questions and threatening her into describing her into describing herself in derogatory terms.
Judge Nigel Morrison QC was told that specially-trained medical staff had interviewed Gray and had concluded that he didn't appreciate the seriousness of his crimes.
Court appointed social workers also found that Gray was at high risk of re-offending.
Judge Morrison jailed Gray for five years and said he must be supervised by the authorities for three years following his release from prison.
Gray’s lawyer said: “Beyond the images, he has communicated with another who holds similar deviant thoughts.
I’d kill 25 newborns a night. No mercy.
“It will be a concern to the court that he has also engaged with an individual thought to be 13 and engaged in sexual communications with her.
“Concern runs through all of the charges and the risk that professionals deem him to be – which is a high risk of re-offending if gone unchecked.
“I have said to Gray that given the gravity of the offending and the content of the reports there will be no alternative to a custodial sentence here.
“In custody, it is open for him to engage in rehabilitation.
“Gray states at this stage that he is motivated to address his offending and wants professional intervention for what is a sexual deviancy.”
Gray had a total of 19,884 images, made up of 16,120 still pictures and 3,764 videos.
He had 1,864 pictures and 2,254 moving images of Category A abuse, which is classed in law as the worst level of sexual exploitation of children and babies.
The age range of the children – male and female – who were abused was ‘less than a year to 12 years’, the court was told.
Gray was arrested in a 7am swoop as part of an intelligence-led police cyber-crime operation on June 2 last year.
His solicitor said: “He initially started to view online pornography at the age of 13.
“He says that he stumbled across child pornography but seems to have become fascinated by it and he got sexual gratification from it.”
Sheriff Derek Hamilton last month told Gray: “The narration of the images in this case is the worst I have ever heard.
“The matter involves you also discussing the sexual abuse, rape and killing of babies.
“My concern at the moment is that the risk of you re-offending is high.”
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