A grim tale from the BBC:
A woman who accessed her "vast" library of child sexual abuse images from her hospital bed has been jailed.
Julie Marshall used public wifi to look at some of her 80,000 images as she recovered from a heart attack in August 2017, Preston Crown Court heard.
The court heard police raided the 54-year-old's home in Blackpool and seized two laptops, a phone and multiple CDs.
Marshall, who admitted three counts of making indecent images of children, was sentenced to nine months in prison.
The 54-year-old, who had no previous convictions, admitted downloading images from the internet between June 2004 and April 2018 in February.
They included 677 images of the most serious nature, known as category A images.
She had also downloaded 465 category B images and 79,958 category C images.
The picture of the offender gives us more information as to what's going on here, which the text notably fails to provide…"Julie" is quite clearly a man with long hair.
More here, from when the case first came to court in February:
John Robert Marshall/Julie Marshall, a male who identifies as a trans woman, was convicted at Blackpool Magistrates’ Court in February 2020 of three counts related to the possession of more than 80,000 indecent images of children.
The offences were too serious to be sentenced in the magistrates’ court so the case was referred to Preston Crown Court…
In a gross obfuscation, the media report states throughout, and in the headline, that the offences were committed by a woman and names ‘John Robert Marshall’ as ‘Julie Marshall’s alias’….
Sexual offences such as rape and possession of CSA images are typical of male pattern offending and the inclusion of even very small numbers of sex offences committed by males within female offending statistics will hopelessly distort them.
As has been noted, if this Julie had been the victim of a crime, there's surely little doubt that her status as a trans woman would have been clearly stated in the report. But as a perpetrator? Nah. Just a woman….
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