Sentenced: Man With 21,578 Images & Videos Of Children & Animals Being Sexually Abused Jailed For 2nd Time

[Sugar Cookie]

A Hamilton man jailed for collecting more than 20,000 images and videos of children and animals being sexually abused by adults was imprisoned eight years ago for the same kind of crime.

Andrew Floyd Williams, 51, was sentenced to two years and five months in jail when he appeared in the Hamilton District Court on Monday, on one charge of importing and eight charges of possession of objectionable material.

Those charges were representative, meaning they cover a multitude of individual files found on several hard drives in Williams' house in Frankton.

On seven USB files found in his bedroom, Customs Service officers identified 21,578 images and videos featuring various kinds of child sexual abuse.

Of those files, 20,096 depicted "real victims" - actual children - with the remainder being digitally generated animations and such like.

The ages of the children ranged from infants up to about nine years old. About 4000 of the files were classified as "category A", meaning they depicted actual penetrative sexual activity.

Williams' collection was discovered soon after he arrived back in New Zealand following a four-week holiday in Thailand. He declared he had nothing prohibited or restricted to Customs staff at Auckland International Airport, however a baggage search revealed a Samsung tablet and a USB stick in his luggage, and these were forensically examined.

It appeared Williams had tried to cover his tracks. He failed to do a good job of it, because the investigator found deleted files depicting child sex abuse on the USB and "traces of files" on the tablet.

That same day his home was searched and an Acer laptop and his other USB drives were recovered.
One of the USBs was shaped like Darth Vader. Another was shaped like the Tasmanian Devil cartoon character. Analysis of the laptop found he had been downloading
abuse files since at least June last year.

In 2011 he was jailed for one year and 11 months on 30 charges of knowingly importing objectionable publications.

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[Handbag]

Why is he still allowed to live?

 

[Babs]

In court on Monday, Williams' counsel Jess Tarrant said he had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and had acknowledged "he has an issue".

Ya think?

 

[BuffettGirl]

I hope the warden "accidentally" drops the keys to his cell down a sewer...

 

[FrayedKnot]

In court on Monday, Williams' counsel Jess Tarrant said he had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and had acknowledged "he has an issue".

Ya think?

Well, shew!

Now we can all sleep better.

 

[Bobbo]

So, 21,577 images is the limit?

 

[Sejanus]

Cure him with a lead injection.

 

[GreenEyedDevil]

If they can't put these fuckers to death for their first offense, why not at least ban them from accessing the internet for life...

 

[rushman]

Another asshole into itty bitty stinky

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Glad he was caught but I'm unsure about why they did a forensic search of his tablet. I didn't think you needed to declare something like that unless you bought it out of country.

Wonder what he was doing in Thailand for 4 weeks???

 

[Satanica]

I think we both have a pretty good idea what he was doing, unfortunately.

 

[Olivia]

Glad he was caught but I'm unsure about why they did a forensic search of his tablet. I didn't think you needed to declare something like that unless you bought it out of country.

Wonder what he was doing in Thailand for 4 weeks???

I’ve always said that I don’t trust any man that travels to Thailand for “vacation”. Alone. For weeks. Repeatedly.

 

[Blunderbuss Firozabad]

Useless git.

 

[Granmaw]

If we as a society are too "enlightened" to murder this filth, I'd be fine with just poking his eyes out.

 

[Jellyfish Brain]

I’ve always said that I don’t trust any man that travels to Thailand for “vacation”. Alone. For weeks. Repeatedly.

I remember when I was a kid, there was an old white guy in our neighborhood that used to go to Southeast Asia a few times a year ... by himself, for a few weeks... my mom always warned us to stay away from his house and never to talk to him. She knew what was up.