Probation Chief Vincent Barron Sentenced To Prison For Distributing Child Pornography, While Setting Up Database Of Sex Offenders
A Probation Service expert who distributed child pornography while setting up a £10m Home Office database of sex offenders was sentenced to 14 months in prison yesterday.
Vincent Barron, 49, sent ten pornographic images of children, aged between five and 12, to a Scotsman he met in an internet chatroom.
Barron, of Kirk Rise, Frosterley, County Durham, pleaded guilty to the offences and was sentenced at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.
Twice-married Barron pleaded guilty in December to distributing indecent pictures of children between May and August 2005.
He was then earning £45,000 a year as an assistant chief probation officer seconded to the Home Office to establish the Violent and Sex Offender Register.
During a police interview, Barron admitted he used internet chatrooms to exchange child pornography.
When asked if he had any knowledge of the matter under investigation, he replied: “I have, through chatrooms, exchanged photographs of a sexual and pornographic nature and some of these images will have included children under the age of 13.”
The court heard that a psychiatric report placed Barron at a high risk of re-offending, because internet offending could be a powerful addiction.
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posted by Winston Smith at 1:36 am
2 Comments:
just to say that vincent barron is actually still living at kirk rise every weekend and is not in prison where he should be
just a quick message to say he is vile and should be given the death sentence and he has done more than what is bein let on i know the truth and no he is not in prison....yet!! ill have the last laugh
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