A 33-year-old man from Essex has been handed a suspended jail term after importing a childlike sex doll and possessing child abuse images. Simon Glerum was arrested when Border Force officers intercepted a parcel from Hong Kong at Stansted airport.
The package, labelled as a mannequin, contained a metre-tall anatomically correct doll along with items such as a body stocking. Following his arrest at his home in Great Bardfield, police seized a laptop that held indecent images of children and a fictional story depicting child sexual abuse.
At Chelmsford Crown Court, Glerum pleaded guilty to importing the doll, three counts of making indecent images of a child, and one count of possessing a prohibited image. He was sentenced on Friday to 12 months in prison, suspended for 24 months, with the sentence running concurrently for all five counts.
In addition, Glerum received a five-year sexual harm prevention order and must complete a sex offender treatment programme and 20 rehabilitation days. Detective Inspector Neal Miller stated: “The importation of childlike sex dolls can be an indication of offences being committed against children, as in this case, where images of child abuse were found on Glerum’s computer.”
