A male sex offender with a history of possessing “extreme pornographic images” of children has been jailed once again after being found utilizing a fake identity to seek out indecent content featuring young girls.
Dewi Rowlands, 64 of Wales, has been sentenced to 14 months in jail after being convicted of breaching an existing sexual harm prevention order from a previous sex offense.
According to Wales Online, Rowlands had first been convicted in 2017 of possessing disturbing child sexual abuse materials, and was banned from using any social networking apps without first notifying police for 10 years. Despite the conviction, Rowlands was not jailed and instead was handed a two-year suspended sentence, meaning he was allowed to walk free so long as he abided by certain conditions.
But Rowlands apparently had returned to viewing websites banned by his order as early as 2020, and police seized devices from his home in 2021 which demonstrated he’d not only been accessing various applications without notifying the police, but had been using fake identities to do so.
One such identity was that of a 56-year-old lesbian woman named Carol Jones, which Rowlands used the persona of on image-sharing websites. Rowlands actively sought out other sex offenders to discuss his perversions with using these identities, having conversations in which he sexually fantasized about young girls and bestiality.
Rowlands, a father of two, had also been accessing erotic stories websites, on which he looked for material featuring underage girls.
While being arrested, Rowlands denied he had any sexual interest in children. He also admitted to having “six or seven” different e-mail accounts police were unaware of.
During the trial this week, Rowland’s defense attempted to argue against a penal punishment, with Rowland’s attorney suggesting a “longer, community-based sentence.” The presiding judge, however, disagreed, and stated that he felt Rowland’s prospects for rehabilitation were “not realistic.”
Rowlands was handed a 14-month jail sentence, with the judge stating: “Your distorted mindset still persists and you regard yourself as a passive bystander in this when others discuss child sex abuse. You clearly are there for perverted sexual gratification … There’s some remorse here but the probation service seem to be of the view that this is only so you avoid jail. That won’t work I’m afraid.”
Rowland’s electronic devices have been ordered to be destroyed, and an extended sexual harm prevention order has been imposed.
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