April 2022

Walsall paedophile who worked with children locked up after online grooming

A paedophile who was caught with more than 3,000 indecent images and videos of underage boys has been jailed for six years

Alexander Troth, from Aldridge, searched for children online to groom. He would then encourage them to engage in sexual activity over the internet which he would watch, record and distribute to other perverts.

Police revealed Troth had previously worked with children but said they had ruled out that any of the boys in his care were abused.

Troth was arrested when West Midlands Police specialist Online Child Sexual Exploitation Team (OCSET) discovered he had uploaded images during the summer of 2020.

Officers then found more than 2,100 indecent videos as well as hundreds of photographs across his laptop and mobile phone.

Troth admitted 16 offences relating to inciting a child aged 13 to 15 to engage in or watch sexual activity, possessing indecent images of children and publishing an obscene article between 2011 and 2020.