Man who imported child sex doll is jailed for 16 months

A sick ex-school governor and churchwarden who imported a child sex doll into Britain has been jailed.David Turner, 72, from Ramsgate, Kent, was today sentenced to 16 months in prison after he admitted importing and having sex with the life-like 3ft 10in model.It comes after Turner pleaded guilty, thereby accepting the doll was obscene or indecent, in a UK first.Officers also found 29 fictional stories – which described sexual abuse of children but fell outside the Obscene Publications Act – when they searched Turner's home.One of these Turner wrote after dreaming about having sex with a child, the court heard.The pervert was caught in November last year after Border Force intercepted a parcel containing another three foot doll he was attempting to import from China.Officers found the doll in a parcel labelled 'mannequin' at Stansted Airport. It came with a fishnet body-stocking.But when National Crime Agency officers arrested Turner and raided his home they found the anatomically correct doll which he had been sleeping with – as well as 34,000 indecent images.The charge of ordering and importing an indecent or obscene article relates to a 3ft 10in doll that was already in his possession – which the depraved pensioner had even bought clothes and underwear for.He pleaded guilty to six counts of possessing indecent images at an earlier hearing in June.He was in possession of 138 Category A images of child abuse (the most serious), 299 Category B images and 33,619 Category C images.Appearing on June 22 at the same court, Turner admitted that on November 10 2016 he had in his possession 138 photographs, and a further charge of having 33,918.Standing in the dock the bespectacled pensioner also confessed to a count of making 35 indecent images on November 2.Further charges of making 15 indecent photos, possession of category B and C videos and other moving images on November 10 were also admitted.Analysis of Turner's computers showed he viewed websites selling items advertised as 'flat chest love doll' and 'mini silicone sex doll 65cms little breasts'.Children in the images were aged from approximately three to 16.In interview, Turner said his preference was to view indecent images of children aged four to 10 and he admittedly 'secretly' taking photographs of girls aged six to 11 in public places.After being arrested Turner resigned as a school governor of St Ethelbert's Church Primary School in Margate and from St Ethelbert's and Gertrude Church where he was a warden.Canterbury Crown Court heard how he had taken photographs of the children at the school where he was a governor.He regularly attended the school library to help children as young as four with their reading.In sentencing him Judge Simon James said: 'It is difficult for reasonable people to be anything other than horrified that you could find such material sexually arousing.'Particularly as you were, at the same time, voluntarily involving yourself with children of a similar age as a school governor and at your church