He pleaded guilty to three charges
A music teacher printed and passed on indecent images of children and exchanged messages talking about carrying out sex acts with a 14-year-old girl.
Walton Cliffe even offered money for more pictures of the teenager and a pair of her knickers.
But the 69-year-old avoided being jailed when he appeared at Warwick Crown Court to face the music for his repeated offending over a period of 15 years.
He pleaded guilty at the court to three charges of distributing indecent images of children, three of making indecent images of children and three of possessing such images.
He also admitted possessing a prohibited image of a child, two charges of possessing extreme pornography and two of publishing an obscene article.
Those pleas were accepted by prosecutor Andrew Warner who offered no evidence on two further charges of arranging a child sex offence, which Cliffe had denied.
Cliffe, of Elsee Road, Rugby, who was formally found not guilty of those two charges, was sentenced to 20 months in prison suspended for two years, with a 7pm-7am curfew for 50 days, and was ordered to take part in a rehabilitation activity.
He was also ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years and made subject to a sexual harm prevention order banning him from having unsupervised contact with children without the consent of both the child’s parent and Social Services.
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 11:09 pm