Enock Aboagye

A hospital security guard from Leicester has been sentenced for possessing and distributing illegal child abuse images. Enock Aboagye, aged 23, appeared before Judge Philip Head at Leicester Crown Court on Friday, September 26, 2025, after pleading guilty to multiple charges related to child sexual exploitation material.

The court heard that Aboagye had been accessing illegal images since he was 14 years old, beginning in 2016 shortly after he and his family moved to the UK from Ghana. Over a six-year period, from 2016 to 2022, he downloaded and shared hundreds of such images via the Snapchat platform. Leicestershire Police raided his home on Knighton Lane East in Knighton, Leicester, in October 2022, seizing his phone which contained 4,353 child abuse images and 42 extreme pornography images involving bestiality. The distribution offences occurred when Aboagye was aged 19 and 20.

Aboagye pleaded guilty to four counts of possession of indecent images of children and three counts of distribution. Representing him, Lowri Butterworth informed the court that Aboagye had no previous convictions in the UK or Ghana and was employed full-time as a security guard at a local hospital until the charges forced him to leave. He has since begun an online plumbing course and works part-time in pub security. An interim Sexual Harm Prevention Order was imposed in June 2025 following his initial guilty plea at magistrates' court.

Judge Head highlighted the severity of the case, stating: 'The things that make your case so much worse are how long this went on for and the fact you not only deliberately accessed this material but were then sharing quite large amounts with others. If there weren't people like you accessing this material people would not be making it and children would be saved.' The judge also addressed Aboagye's tendency to blame others, saying: 'You tend to blame everyone but yourself and it's time you were taught to look yourself in the mirror.' Due to Aboagye's young age, the 20-month prison sentence was suspended for two years.

In addition to the suspended sentence, Aboagye was ordered to complete 105 hours of unpaid work, attend 50 days of rehabilitation programmes recommended by the Probation Service, and adhere to a two-month curfew from 7pm to 6am with electronic monitoring. He will be on the sex offenders register for 10 years and subject to a strict 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order restricting his internet use. The case was investigated by Leicestershire Police, underscoring the ongoing efforts to combat the distribution of child abuse material online.