A trainee teacher who shared videos of newborn babies being raped has avoided jail time.
Jacob Chouffot, 26, shared and received more than a thousand of the most serious Category A films and photos.
The 26-year-old of Iffley, Oxford confessed to 14 counts of making, possessing and distributing child abuse images from 2015 until 2019.
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The former trainee teacher left his job in November 2022 after being arrested by the police, Oxford Crown court heard.
In a following police interview, he confessed to possessing the sickening videos, which he distributed to other vile predators on Telegram and WhatsApp.
Eighteen months later, the paedophile was charged and pleaded guilty at his first hearing.
Chouffot stored and distributed the harrowing footage on two mobile phones, the court was told.
One of the mobile devices had 570 Category A photos as well as 484 videos of children, with some as young as six months old.
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Between the two mobile phones, there were 228 Category B and 63 Category C snaps.
Julian Lynch, prosecuting, said: ‘The obvious aggravating feature is the very young age of the children.
‘This is more than a trivial number of mostly moving images.’
Kellie Enever, defending, argued that Chouffot had been abused from the age of 11, and had used drink and drugs to self-medicate during the offending period.
Judge Nigel Daly handed Chouffot a two-year suspended sentence, noting that the mitigating factors outweighed the age of the sexual offender’s victims.
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The ex-teacher has been ordered to complete 30 rehab sessions, 180 hours of unpaid work and has also been made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
He is also required to sign the sex offenders register for the next decade.
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