Middle-aged Leeds paedophile with fetish for girls in school uniforms taken to court
He admitted to police that he was attracted to teenage girls
A paedophile with a fetish for teen schoolgirls was caught in possession of hundreds of child-abuse images.
Christopher Pearcey was identified after his IP address was flagged up to police.
The 54-year-old received a suspended sentence at Leeds Crown Court this week.
He had spent three years searching out the material between 2022 and 2025, prosecutor Becky Jayne said.
Officers attended his address on July 10 last year to arrest him and seized three internet devices.
They found more than 200 images and videos, classed as Category A, B and C. Category A depicts the worst kind of abuse, including children being raped.
The children in the footage were as young as four.
Officers also found search terms linked to his vile interest in children, while he had also had conversations on social media, asking other perverts for abuse images.
Specifically, he wanted pictures of girls in school uniforms.
During his police interview he confessed to having a sexual interest in girls aged 14 to 16.
He told officers he "acted out of boredom and stupidity".
Pearcey, of Armley Grange Drive, Armley, admitted three counts of possessing indecent images and three counts of making indecent images. He has no previous convictions.
Mitigating, Marte Alnaes said Pearcey had "made full and frank admissions" to police and entered early guilty pleas.
She said he had a "difficult childhood" but said it was an explanation rather than an excuse.
She added: "He has expressed remorse and there's a lot of shame attached to that.”
The judge, Recorder Abdul Iqbal KC, gave Pearcey a 12-month sentence, suspended for 12 months.
He ordered he complete 20 rehabilitation days and 150 hours of unpaid work.
In addition, he was put on the sex offender register for 10 years and given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) to curb his internet use.