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Child porn teacher banned
A teacher from Wigan has been banned for life from working with children after admitting child porn charges.
Andrew Daley, of Bolton Road, Ashton, pleaded guilty to 17 counts of making indecent images of children up to the age of 11. He was also given a three-year community order during sentencing at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday.
Police raided Daley's home in May last year, seizing the 43-year-old's computer, pictures and prints.
When it was examined, officers found 39 images of child abuse on the computer's hard drive.
Some of the images depicted abuse of children who were believed to be as young as five.
As well as the downloaded images, police also found 17 websites saved among his 'favourites', all of which shared a common theme of teen and
pre-teen pornography.
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Daley has been employed as an English and media studies teacher at the highly-regarded St Aelred's Catholic Technology College in Newton-Le-Willows since 1991.
It is understood that Mr Daley's position at the school will now be reviewed by St Helens Local Education Authority via the proper process.
Daley was arrested after police executed a warrant at his home on May 8 last year.
He was interviewed for a second time a month later, on July 7, and admitted downloading the images to his computer and printing images that had been found hidden under his bed.
Alongside the community order and life ban on working with children, Daley was ordered to attend a sex offender programme and banned from downloading images of children under 16 for life.
DC Ian Pennington, of Wigan CID, said: "Daley was never in contact with any of the abused children in the pictures he had – but those accessing such horrible material are well aware that their interest perpetuates the terrible suffering of victims."
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