A man has appeared in court charged with offences involving images of child abuse and of sex acts involving a person, snake and chicken.
Ethan Palmer, 22, of Brayton Road in Whitehaven, faced Workington magistrates on Tuesday on five charges.
What are the charges?
Make indecent photograph of a child – He is accused of viewing, accessing or downloading 26 category A images of a child. This charge relates to the period of February 1 2019 to April 24 2020 in Whitehaven.
Make indecent photograph of a child – He is accused of viewing, accessing or downloading 11 category B images of a child. This charge relates to the same period as above and is again alleged to have taken place in Whitehaven.
Make indecent photograph of a child – It is alleged he viewed, accessed or downloaded 16 category C images of a child. This again relates to the same time period as the first two charges and is said to have taken place in Whitehaven.
Possess a prohibited image of a child – On April 24 2020, in Whitehaven, he is alleged to have been in possession of a prohibited image of a child.
Possess extreme pornographic images portraying an act of intercourse/oral sex with a dead/alive animal – On the same date of the previous charge, he is accused of possessing two extreme pornographic images which portrayed a human involved in a sex act with a snake and chicken.
He indicated a guilty plea for all five charges.
Palmer was granted unconditional bail ahead of a hearing at Carlisle Crown Court on January 7.
