Young Shotts dad caught with child abuse material

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A young dad caught with child abuse material had also been swapping intimate images with a young girl.Ross Easton, 27, has now been put on the sex offenders' register and warned he could be sent to prison.Hamilton Sheriff Court heard this week that police found 4,261 child abuse photos and videos on a phone and a tablet belonging to him.Easton admitted downloading indecent images at his home in Kilfinan Place, Shotts, and other locations, and sharing an image with another paedophile.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 2,272 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 also found hundreds of Easton's