Father jailed for 20 years for raping disabled son and producing child pornography

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A father who raped his disabled son and produced child pornography was jailed for 20 years by the Central Criminal Court. He had pleaded guilty to two counts of rape, 10 counts of sexual assault, three counts of sexual exploitation, two counts of producing child pornography and one count of possessing it.

The court heard that a search of his home in March 2015 uncovered 12,427 child sexual abuse images, more than 5,500 of them relating to his son, who was aged six to seven when they were made. The man cannot be named to protect his son’s identity. The judge also ordered five years of post-release supervision and backdated the sentence to April 2015, when the man entered custody.