Man found with indecent images of children jailed

SICK DONOVAN STEVENSON ALSO ASSAULTED PREGNANT PARTNER

- By CARL EVE [e-mail]

A MAN has been jailed for assaulting his former partner and being found in possession of indecent images of children which a judge said demonstrated his "perverted and repulsive interest in children as sex objects".

Donovan Stevenson, aged 37 and from Renaissance Gardens, Plymouth, appeared at Plymouth Crown Court after pleading guilty to a number of offences.

Sentencing Stevenson, Judge Robert Linford noted that when Stevenson's phone was examined by police, two indecent images of children of category A - depicting the most extreme images - were found. He said the images showed the rape of a child “aged somewhere between four and six”.

He said that the images were not computer generated, stating that these were images of “real children being savagely abused so that people can get sexual gratification from it.”

He told Stevenson: “If it were not for people like you prepared to watch this material there would not be people doing it and recording it. It repulses right-minded members of the public.”

The court heard the images were reportedly made in 2019. Stevenson denied the offences when interviewed by police and he was released under investigation in 2020.

However, Judge Linford pointed out that Stevenson went on to assault and harass a named woman in 2023 while still under investigation for the indecent images of children offences and while he was subject of a suspended sentence.