A young Wigan man who arranged sexual activity with a child and made abuse films receives his sentence
A Wigan 21-year-old has been given a suspended prison sentence for making films involving youngsters being sexually abused and arranging sexual activity with a child.
A suspended prison sentence has been handed to a Wigan 21-year-old who admitted arranging sexual activity with a child when he was a teenager.
Reece Gaskell, of Bevington Street, Ashton, pleaded guilty at an earlier court hearing to carrying out the offence in late April 2023.
He also admitted making nine films of child sexual abuse that fell into the most serious legal category A, along with 240 in category B and 226 in category C, between November 23 and 25, 2023, and distributing one category C image.
A judge at Liverpool Crown Court has now sentenced him to two and a half years in prison, suspended for three years, with various requirements.