Woman downloaded child abuse images ‘to harass paedo hunter’
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 12:00 am
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/woman-c ... edo-hunter
A Wiltshire woman has admitted downloading hundreds of child abuse images ‘to better harass a paedophile hunter’, a court heard.
Samantha Franklin stashed 556 indecent photographs of youngsters on her device – with 207 images categorised as the most serious.
[...]
Crown prosecutor Keith Ballinger asked for the case to be sent to the crown court due to the sheer number of images – stating that it is “outside this court’s power of sentence”.
Defence solicitor Jeremy Colenso said: “She doesn’t fit the stereotype… my first question is why? Well there’s a bit of a story to it.
“She had been carrying out research, she’s going to claim, so she could better harass the paedophile hunter.”