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10.01.2022 - 16:33 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A community worker was warned that he was facing jail, after a court heard he trawled the dark web for "child sex tourism" and downloaded photos of children as young as six months old being sexually abused.
Darren Kennedy, 35, a former director of the Callander Community Development Trust, which puts on summer and winter festivals and runs community facilities including a heritage trail and "friendship garden" in the Perthshire town, was arrested after an early morning raid.
Falkirk Sheriff Court heard that police acting on information visited Kennedy's home in Menteith Crescent, Callander, where he had lived alone for the previous eight years, at 7.30 am on June 20th, 2019, to execute a search warrant.
They found nearly 2850 unique indecent images of children on a laptop, a computer tower system unit, and an external hard drive, nearly 700 of them of the most serious "A" category.
Two indecent videos showing children were also found.
Software used to trawl the dark web -- including the "Tor" browser which is supposed to make users anonymous on the internet -- had been used to download the collection.
Prosecutor Katie Cunningham said: "Search terms that had been used included 'child sex tourism', 'paedo art collection', 'dark net', and 'PTCH', which is an acronym for 'pre teen hardcore'.
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"The images showed children of between approximately six months and 15 years of age engaged in sexual activity with adults and other children, or children posing naked or
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