A journalist who had ‘revolting’ animal porn on his phone and laptop has been declared unemployable after a judge told him he ‘betrayed his loyal viewers.’
Stephen Kish, who hosted the CBBC show Officially Amazing, had also been running a dog walking and boarding business called Tails of Love.
Police found three grossly offensive moving images on his phone and three more still images on his computer showing a person having sex with an animal when they searched his home in September 2018.
Officers took the family dog Molly after searching Kish’s phone and computers.
Kish sobbed in the dock before admitting to having animal porn at an earlier hearing, and at his sentencing only spoke to confirm his name and that he understood his sentence.
As a CBBC host, he was known Sizzlin’ Steve on the show Officially Amazing, which follows people trying to break world
Kish, who lives at home with his parents, is waiting for an assessment of a diagnosis of autism, the court also [B]heard.
He will be required to attend a sex offender’s programme and complete 20 rehabilitation days, with another 200 hours of unpaid work in the community.
‘If you commit any offence in the next two years, you will be sending yourself straight to prison,’ Judge Rennie told Kbish.
He will be subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for the next five years.[/B]
The charge states he possessed an extreme pornographic image, which portrayed, in an explicit and realistic way, a person performing an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal.