A MAN who was found with images of child sexual abuse and bestiality on his phone took a picture of his own dog being abused.

Policed searched Daniel Feazey’s parents’ home on May 12 last year. When away from his parents, “he became visibly upset and motioned towards himself and said: ‘It’s me’,” to one of the officers, prosecutor Ryan Bowen said.

An iPhone was seized from Feazey’s bedroom and indecent images of children were found. He was arrested, and gave a no comment interview.

Following further analysis of the defendant’s phone, officers returned to his home on November 1 and arrested him. He again gave a no comment interview.

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Mr Bowen said that Feazey had two Category B images, 44 Category C images, 37 extreme pornographic images, and nine prohibited images on his phone.

The court heard that the indecent images included a teenage girl carrying out a sexual act an adult man and an image of the exposed genitals of an infant child.

The extreme pornographic images depicted bestiality, and included one image “taken by the defendant at his home of his dog”.

Mr Bowen said that Feazey had also sent some of the images to another person between November 16, 2022, and January 8 last year.

25-year-old Feazey, who had no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to two offences of making indecent images of children, one of distributing indecent images of children, one of possessing extreme pornographic images, and one of possessing a prohibited image.

Defence counsel Harry Dickens said that Feazey’s best mitigation was his admissions to officers during the initial search.

“He does accept, when police attended his property, his responsibility,” he said.

“Although he is now 25, he was somewhat younger at the time of these offences.”

Mr Dickens said that the defendant had a been in an “entirely online” and “anonymised” relationship with another person, and that his actions were “to satisfy that person’s interests”.

“He maintains he does not have a sexual interest in animals or children.”

Mr Dickens said that Feazey had “significantly” reduced the amount of time he spent online and had cut the other person out of his life.

“Why people end up doing this and continue to do it is bewildering,” Judge Geraint Walters said. “You don’t think for a moment that the police pop round on the off-chance. No, they know. And there’s thousands of people out there at the moment waiting for a knock.

“Do you honestly think you are not going to get caught? The answer is you will be. It’s only a matter of time.”

Judge Walters said that any immediate prison sentence he was able to give the defendant would be too short for him to complete any rehabilitation work.

“I cannot say you are beyond being rehabilitated,” he said.

Feazey, of Caeffynnon in Llandybie, was sentenced to a total of six months, suspended for two years. He must complete the Horizon programme and 20 rehabilitation activity requirement days.

He must register as a sex offender for seven years, and was made subject to a sexual harm prevention order for the same period.