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Ian Howard Bailey

Alias

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Offences

25 charges of possessing and copying objectionable material

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1966

Current Location

Unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 6 months periodic detention and 9 months supervision in July 2001

Background
Christchurch Press, 30th July 2001
PALMERSTON NORTH - A 35-year-old Palmerston North man used his mother's computer to download child pornography, the Palmerston North District Court has been told. Ian Howard Bailey, unemployed, pleaded guilty to 25 charges of possessing and copying objectionable material.The charges related to an Internal Affairs Department investigation which found about 1000 files of sexually explicit material, involving images of girls as young as six, in Bailey's possession. Judge Barry Lovegrove described Bailey as "a forlorn figure" who was a slave to his voyeuristic tendencies. "All images involved pre-pubescent girls in sexual poses and involved in a variety of sexual acts," he said.

Judge Lovegrove said people such as Bailey created a demand which led to the exploitation and denigration of children. Defence counsel Mark Alderdice said the images were circulated only among a small group of people, and the offending was Bailey's "personal fetish". "Mr Bailey knows it is deviant, he knows it is unacceptable," he said. The visit by Internal Affairs to his mother's house, where he lived and where the offending took place, had jolted Bailey out of his "unrealistic cocoon", he said. Bailey lived in a social vacuum, caused in part by health problems including a congenital lung defect and failing eyesight, he said. Judge Lovegrove sentenced Bailey to six months' periodic detention, nine months' supervision, and fined him $400.

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