A sex offender has been spared jail after he was caught with videos of toddlers being raped and people having sex with dogs and horses.
Zacharia Al-Kindy was caught with the illegal films and pictures, which showed girls as young as two being abused, at the home he shares with his mum.
The 28-year-old's sickening haul was kept in the 'Downloads' folder of his laptop, which he kept in his bedroom.
His lawyer claimed he began seeking out the abuse material while dealing with the deaths of his dad and a sibling.
The details emerged yesterday when Al-Kindy, of Darvel, East Ayrshire, appeared in the dock at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court to be sentenced.
He had earlier pleaded guilty to charges of possessing indecent images of children and being in possession of "extreme pornographic" images.
Prosecutor Meghan Glancey told the court that officers from Police Scotland obtained a search warrant for Al-Kindy's home.
On January 19, 2021, they attended his home and were granted entry by his mum, while he was not in.
A search revealed 123 indecent images of children on his laptop, 84 of which were the most extreme there is.
She told Sheriff George Jamieson that the images had been downloaded between August 12, 2020, and January 16, 2021, and that his stash even included a 33-minute-long video.
He also had 6 extreme porn images showing adults engaged in sex acts with dogs and horses.
Defence solicitor advocate Simon Brown said Al-Kindy, who is known as Zach, had fully complied with social workers interviewing him ahead of sentencing.
The lawyer said: "He has insight into his offending.
"He had a very difficult upbringing, suffering the death of his father and a sibling within a very short period of time and had a significant impact upon him.
"He kept himself to himself and was isolated, and that seems to have been the beginning of the rabbit hole he went down which resulted in this behaviour."
Sheriff Jamieson slammed Al-Kindy, saying people who access indecent images of children are giving a reason for the abuse to continue.
He then placed him on the Sex Offenders' Register and a Community Payback Order for the next three years.
He was told to attend the Moving Forward, Making Changes Programme, which helps sex offenders change their ways, and banned him from having any unsupervised conduct with anyone under the age of 16.
He also told him he was only allowed to own one mobile phone and one laptop and has to surrender them to social workers and the police to check, when asked.
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