Warning: This article discusses child sexual abuse
Thomas didn’t always look at child sexual abuse material. He says, it started with legal pornography.
“Some of the links are so unclear that you can find yourself going on to something that you shouldn t be.”
Thomas said he accessed the material when out of work and recovering from surgery. After he returned to work, he didn t look at the images again, but did not delete all traces from his computer.
“I had no sexual interest in children. It s not something that interested me,” he said.
“There was an element of curiosity, fascination, whatever you like to call it.and that probably got me looking at things that I shouldn’t have been.”