BAFTA-nominated actor admits viewing 850 little one abuse photographs

A BAFTA-nominated actor downloaded and considered nearly 850 sick abuse images of kids as younger as three years outdated.

Daniel Frogson, 21, admitted viewing the ‘sickening’ photographs at Nottingham Crown Court, the place he was discovered responsible of downloading 848 indecent photographs together with 165 of probably the most severe class, which usually reveals adults raping kids.

The courtroom heard how Frogson, a CBBC actor who featured in BBC drama ‘His Dark Materials’, had been viewing the images since he was 17.

Handing him an eight-month jail sentence, suspended for twenty-four months, Judge Steven Coupland stated: ‘The photographs I’ve seen are sickening. Each of them is an actual little one being abused for the pleasure of somebody such as you watching.

‘It is made worse due to the variety of them – there have been 848 indecent photographs – and it’s made worse by the size of time you had been doing it. You advised the probation officer you shouldn’t have a sexual curiosity in kids. I do not settle for that.’

Frogson was positioned on the intercourse offender register for ten years and given a five-year sexual hurt prevention order – however will keep away from jail if he stays out of bother for 2 years.

Daniel Frogson attends a Gala Screening of ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’ at The Ham Yard Hotel on April 18, 2023 in London

Daniel Frogson options in BBC drama His Dark Materials, an acclaimed fantasy TV collection

Nicola Patten, prosecuting, stated: ‘Two gadgets had been seized and the defendant was arrested. On them had been 165 class A photographs, 88 class B and 592 class C.

‘There had been additionally three prohibited photographs of kids and search phrases exhibiting a sexual curiosity in kids.’

Police had been first alerted to the photographs being downloaded from an IP handle in Nuthall, Notts. the place Frogson was dwelling, Metro reported.

Patten stated: ‘He was interviewed twice in 2023 and on each events answered “no comment” to the query he was requested.’ 

Frogson, now of Malthouse Close, pleaded responsible to possession of the indecent photographs and has no earlier convictions of any type.

Lauren Manuel, defending, stated her consumer was nominated for a Bafta appearing award for his position as Joe within the 2018 mini-series Joe All Alone, which received the celebrated award for Best Children’s Drama that yr.

Joe All Alone aired on kids’s tv channel CBBC. 

In it Frogson, of Eastwood, performed Joe, a 13-year-old boy left behind by his mom and her boyfriend after they go away for every week. 

Frogson was nominated for a Bafta appearing award for his position as Joe within the 2018 mini-series Joe All Alone, which received the celebrated award for Best Children’s Drama that yr

Daniel Frogson attends the Global Premiere of HBO and BBC’s ‘His Dark Materials’ at BFI Southbank on October 15, 2019 in London

The defendant, who additionally had a task within the 2023 movie The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, was dwelling in Nuthall when an IP handle there was suspected of downloading little one abuse photographs in early 2023. 

Miss Manuel, mitigating, stated: ‘He did very nicely together with his drama and appearing and obtained a Bafta nomination for Joe All Alone the place he performed a younger boy dwelling at residence having to cope with drug use.

‘He is at the moment working in development in between finishing up auditions and over the previous 12 months has put his life on maintain awaiting the result of this case.’ 

As a part of the suspended sentence order, the decide ordered Frogson to attend a 43-day intercourse offender’s rehabilitation programme and ordered him to hold out an additional 15 rehabilitation periods.

Frogson starred in The Devil Outside and The Last Bus.