Mick Hartley

More crap reporting, this time from the Liverpool Echo. Woman distributed indecent images over WhatsApp then claimed it was 'role play'

A woman who distributed indecent images of children over WhatsApp has walked free from court.

Ketan Shende sent the vile pictures and videos to men in lewd chats, then claimed she had merely been engaged in "role play". She continued doing so even after the police had raided her home.

Liverpool Crown Court heard this afternoon, Wednesday, that Merseyside Police first visited her house on Gorsedale Road in Mossley Hill on March 22 last year as a result of information received by the force. Ian Criddle, prosecuting, described how officers seized a Samsung mobile phone on which they discovered 84 indecent images in category A – those graded as showing the most serious forms of abuse.

These included pictures and videos showing children aged as young as four being raped. Also found were 30 category B images and 35 in category C, which had been collected since October 2020….

Sentencing, Recorder David Knifton KC said: "You admitted you had contact with a number of males online in which you engaged in role play for your and their sexual gratification and that involved the sending of indecent images. You denied any sexual interest in children.

"The court is right to be sceptical, but in my judgement it makes little or no difference to the sentencing exercise. You have seen fit to distribute such images for yours or the males' sexual gratification.

"The trade in child pornography is a disgusting and evil trade. It results in misery to the children who are victims, particularly where the purpose is the sexual gratification of deviant adults.

"You have shown a determination to addressing your offending behaviour. Significant progress has been made to date.

"I note you have a history of depressive illness, a mixed personality disorder and gender dysphoria. You have also abused alcohol, which seems to have stemmed from an unhappy childhood and emotional trauma as you seek to transition from male to female.

Finally we get to it, buried away near the bottom of the article. This person, this trader of videos showing young children being raped, is not a woman. What we are dealing with here, of course, is a man. A man.