A paedophile who commissioned child abuse in America from his UK home has been locked up. Craig Chittenden was detained after FBI special agents in Dallas, Texas alerted Durham Constabulary officers about his online behaviour.
Police attended his Willington home in March 2020 to carry out a search warrant, with the offender admitting he had ‘accessed some images’ that could be ‘found on his phone’, Chronicle Live reports.
Several devices were seized from the property and examined by the forensics team, revealing that that 33-year-old had been in contact with other predators in the US and inciting sexual acts on young children.
Chittenden claimed that he had no interest in children but admitted being sexually aroused by the 1,000 indecent images found on his devices.
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