The mother of a teenager who first blew the whistle on disgraced Huw Edwards behaviour has questioned why he was not jailed.
The mum, who went to The Sun newspaper after the ex-BBC star allegedly paid her child for explicit images, said he had “exploited young children for his own sick ends”.
Edwards was named as the presenter at the centre of a scandal over payments to a young person for sexually explicit images but police said no offences had been committed in the case.
But in a separate case, Edwards was found to have received sick child abuse images from a paedophile on WhatsApp, with some of the victims as young as seven years old.
On Monday he was handed a suspended six-month sentence over the pictures.
The mother of the teen in the first case told The Sun newspaper: “I’m devastated Edwards hasn’t gone to prison for the things he did.
“He’s exploited young children for his own sick ends and should have been jailed.
“As a mother, I just cannot comprehend why anyone would share those kinds of pictures and videos.
“When I heard Edwards had a degrading picture of a boy as young as seven on his phone at the same time as he was messaging my son from that same phone, I just couldn’t believe it.”
She also questioned the shamed news anchor’s self-professed “remorse”, saying he had shown none towards her family for his actions.
The family have previously told how Edwards paid their son up to £35,000, which helped to fund a drug habit, for explicit images.
The Metropolitan Police and South Wales Police said that no criminal offence had been committed in the case, despite the chats starting when the teenager was seventeen.
Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday heard how Edwards told convicted paedophile Alex Williams to "go on" when asked if he wanted "naughty pics and vids" of somebody described as "yng".
Chief Magistrate, district judge Paul Goldspring, told the disgraced presenter reputational and financial damage was the "natural consequence of your behaviour which you brought upon yourself".
The BBC said Edwards had "betrayed not just the BBC, but audiences who put their trust in him" - adding that the corporation was "appalled by his crimes".
The court also heard Edwards paid Williams hundreds of pounds after he sent him pornographic images.
But his defence barrister Philip Evans KC said the broadcaster did not make payments to Williams in order to receive indecent images of children.
