Mansfield child porn pervert wrestled with cop while trying to hide mobile down his trousers

Officers swooped on Kacper Ciechanski's home on August 21, last year, after receiving information that the user of a Google account had accessed indecent images and shared them on Snapchat.

Ciechanski initially lied about owning any devices and claimed he had sold his mobile phone the day before, said Claudia James, prosecuting.

But during a search he was spotted trying to hide a phone in his trousers.

A struggle ensued and the phone was eventually seized.

Analysis revealed it contained 33 category A images, five category B images and 97 category C images, of children aged between six and 15-years-old.

In his first police interview Ciechanski suggested the passswords to the accounts might have been stolen, but he later gave a prepared statement in which he accepted responsibility.

Gareth Gimson, mitigating, said the defendant deserved credit for his guilty pleas and has no previous convictions.

“He has done all we, as a state, might want of him to move on from this awful window of time,” he said.

His risk can be managed in the community and there is no reason to think he won't comply with the probation service, Mr Gimson added.

Ciechanski, aged 29, of Holden Street, Mansfield, admitted three counts of possessing indecent images of children when he appeared at Mansfield Magistrates Court, on March 10.

“You were anxious when the police arrived and even wrestled with an officer to prevent him from taking your phone,” Judge Mark Watson told him at Nottingham Crown Court, on Thursday.

"These are children who are being sexually abused," he said. "They are victims whose abuse is indirectly celebrated by people who watch such videos.”

Ciechanski received an eight month sentence, suspended for 18 months, with 20 rehabilitation days and 150 hours of unpaid work. A sexual harm prevention order was imposed for ten years and he must also sign the sex offenders register for the same period of time.

"You are free to leave the dock," the judge told him. "Whether you come back is a matter entirely for you."