A trainee solicitor and police special constable from Wakefield has avoided prison despite plotting to sexual abuse a baby, making hundreds of indecent images of children and possessing hundreds more.
Jack Mallinson, 26, of Wakefield was a trainee solicitor and special police constable with West Yorkshire Police, was identified by National Crime Agency investigators after he used instant messaging app Wickr to send encrypted content.
In posts from October 2020, he described a graphic, fictional scenario of him abusing two young children and discussed his intentions to sexual abuse and rape a baby.
He was arrested on January 7 last year by NCA officers who seized several of his electronic devices and from there they found 2,263 indecent images of children on Mallinson’s mobile phone in categories A-C (A being the most severe) and 14 extreme pornographic bestiality images on his gaming laptop.
Leeds Crown Court heard some of the abuse images involved babies and humans engaging in sexual acts with animals
Mallinson admitted viewing indecent images of children, which were sent to him online via Tumblr or Mega between March and November 2020, but stopped as he had been offered the trainee solicitors job.
He also admitted watching extreme pornography.
Mallinson was charged with three counts of making indecent images of children, one count of possessing such images, one count of possessing extreme pornographic bestiality images and one count of publishing obscene posts.
He pleaded guilty to all the charges at Leeds Magistrates’ Court on March 2 this year
He was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court today to 12 months imprisonment suspended for two years, a two-month Community Order and a 10 year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and placed on the Sex Offender register
