Young dad caught with child abuse images has been jailed for 18 months

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A young dad caught with child abuse images has been jailed for 18 months.Police also found that Ross Easton had been swapping intimate photos with a young girl.Hamilton Sheriff Court heard this week that 4261 child abuse photos and videos were found on a phone and a tablet belonging to him.Easton, 27, admitted downloading indecent images at his home in Kilfinan Place, Shotts, and other locations, and sharing an image with another paedophile.He also admitted getting a girl to carry out sexual acts and send him photos and videos, and sending her naked images of himself.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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They went to his home in September 2023 and seized several devices.Rebecca Clark, prosecuting, said that at this time Easton and his partner had a child with another on the way.The graphic material found on his phone and tablet included 2272 videos, with more than half of these in the most depraved category.In some of the images the abuse victims were babies and very young children.Ms Clark said police found hundreds of Easton’s chat logs with fellow paedophiles.They also discovered a folder marked