Mum who ran fetish Facebook page caught with sick images
24.02.2023 - 13:45
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A mum-of-two who ran a fetish Facebook page under the pseudonym 'Rosie Cheek' had explicit images of children as young as 'five or six'. Julie Barnes told police she had no knowledge of the sick images, Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday (February 23).
But officers discovered the images had been deleted from the 57-year-old's phone. Barnes, from Widnes in Cheshire, had shared explicit images of herself on her fetish Facebook page - which has since been deleted.
She was described in court as a 'considerate and loving mother' who had acted through 'loneliness', the Liverpool Echo reports. Prosecuting, Derek Jones said police became aware of suspicious activity on the explicit Facebook page she ran.
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Officers traced the IP address to her home and attended on December 23, 2021. She was spoken to and denied all knowledge of the images, but a Samsung phone was seized from her.
Barnes was not arrested but her phone was analysed and the images discovered were 'cached', meaning they had been deleted. The pictures were not accessible to her at that time, but they had been accessed by her previously, though it could not be determined exactly when.
Mr Jones told the court the images showed girls between seven and nine years old being sexually abused by an adult man, and a five- or six-year-old-boy suffering sexual abuse by a woman. Barnes was interviewed in September 2022 and provided a prepared statement where she accepted being sent the images on her Facebook 'fetish' account.
Mr Jones said there was no evidence of Barnes searching for images of this nature herself, and that May 2021 was the last time it could be confirmed