‘Dangerous’ teenager had photos of children

A TEENAGER 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. He 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 is said makes him a very severe danger to the public.”

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.

Nicholas Dearing, defending, said Parrott ‘recognises that he has issues which he is keen to seek treatment for’.