A 41-year-old former school headmaster was handed a six-year jail sentence after he was reportedly found to be in the possession of a 170-page manual that was about how to sexually abuse kids without getting caught.

Moreover, the suspect identified as Thomas Singleton also photoshopped the faces of certain pupils onto grim child pornography scenes. He also had some handwritten notes labeled “Tom’s action plan,” where four students were named as well as a toddler-sized doll in a pink dress found in his flat.

It was added that the accused had over a million indecent pictures of children, including edited pornographic images of his face alongside some former pupils.

“His house was filled with a large, disturbing collection of items which proved beyond doubt his sexual interest in children,” National Crime Agency manager Michael Parkinson said. “Of particular concern was an extensive paedophile manual which offered explicit, practical guidance on how to carry out abuse.”

Police also found flowcharts at Singleton’s former Suffolk home, something that the 41-year-old pervert described as child abuse scenarios.

“This case highlights how an offender’s behavior can escalate, from downloading abuse material to finding a community of like-minded individuals online who normalise and even encourage this criminal behavior," Parkinson quipped.

Singleton, who was one of the safeguarding leads at the school, was handed a six-year jail sentence by a judge at Ipswich Crown Court. Aside from that, he was also made to sign a sexual offender’s register indefinitely after admitting to three offenses of making indecent images of children, two for taking indecent images, possessing a pedophile manual as well as prohibited and extreme pornographic images.

“Fortunately these offences haven't gone on to lead to actual acts against any of the children in your charge but child pornography is a scourge and has very real victims,” Judge Richard Carlisle stated. “For every indecent image you view a child or children have been abused.”

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