Baby sex fantasy teenager ‘severe danger to public’
ATEENAGER who ‘harbours fantasies’ of raping and assaulting babies and young children is a ‘very severe danger to the public’, a court heard.
Elliot Parrott, 19, was handed a sexual harm prevention order by magistrates in February this year which ‘forbid’ him from possessing any photographs of children under the age of 16 years.
However when officers from the Lancashire Police sex offender management unit searched his room they found pictures of youngsters in a LEGO and music leaflet.
Parrott, of Mills Street, Whitworth, pleaded guilty at Burnley Crown Court to possessing an image of a child under the age of 16 when he was prohibited to do so by a sexual harm prevention order.
Judge Simon Newell ordered that Parrott be made subject to a 12-week interim hospital assessment order under the Mental Health Act and will be sentenced on November 10.
Michael Goldwater, prosecuting, said: “He is a man with some mental health difficulties but also with sexual inclinations which it is said makes him a very severe danger to the public. The defendant has some mild mental handicaps. He is described as borderline autistic.
“He has, from the age of 11, harboured fantasies involving the rape of and acts of violence to babies and young children.
“His autistic condition means that he is extremely truthful. He doesn’t lie or conceal and is immensely candid about the fantasies that he harbours and the inclinations that he possesses.”
Mr Goldwater said Parrott is ‘described as being a very high risk offender’.
The court heard how Parrott was a ‘resident at secure accommodation under close supervision’ when officers visited him on March 15 and found the LEGO and music leaflet containing pictures of children. The pictures were not of a sexual nature.
The prosecutor said: “The defendant candidly admitted that he was not allowed to have them and knew that he was in breach of his order.”
Nicholas Dearing, defending, said Parrott ‘recognises that he has issues which he is keen to seek treatment for’. He told the court: “Efforts have been made to obtain doctors reports before the court today. The recommendation is that in the interim the defendant is remanded to hospital for assessment for at least a 12-week period.” Judge Newell said it was ‘perfectly proper to make the order’.