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A nanny who shared 'disgusting' indecent photos of girls as young as one with her ex-partner has walked free from court.

Elliana Ede-Borrett, of Sumner Road, Croydon, would send images to the man she was in a relationship with via Dropbox.

However, Inner London Crown Court heard how she felt "controlled" and "manipulated" and knew the images were "disgusting" but wanted to make her partner "happy".

The 23-year-old pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of a child but was sentenced to a 60 day community order and ordered to sign the sex offenders register.

The court heard how she made 47 images, 12 of which were of the most serious category, reports the Croydon Advertiser.

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She had been charged with making 12 category A images, 18 category B images and 17 category C images between September 23, 2015 and May 3, 2016.

However, no link was found between the the images and the children who were in Ede-Borrett’s care.

District Judge Stephen Dawson said that because of the “unique” circumstances in the case, it would not have been appropriate to give Ede-Borrett a custodial sentence.

The court heard how the part-time nanny had formed a relationship with a man from Sunderland online.

The man – who has had no criminal action taken against him – then coerced Ede-Borrett to send images to him via Dropbox, the court was told.

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Peter Lancaster, prosecuting, said: “Around 2015 she met a man from Sunderland on the internet and got into a relationship with him.

“She downloaded images onto Dropbox and then he would have access to the images. They would communicate with each other over Skype and they would both look at the images and masturbate.

“She said she felt controlled by him and manipulated into doing it. Since the relationship broke up she has not accessed the images since.

“She said it was a dominating relationship and she said she knew the images were disgusting, but she wanted to make him happy.”

Mr Lancaster added that it is not believed Ede-Borrett has any attraction to children.

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It is also understood that there was no link between the children in the images and the children who were in Ede-Borrett’s care.

Defending Ede-Borrett, Alex Rynn said she had had a “troubled” upbringing which led to her facing mental health problems and suicidal thoughts as an adult.

This, he said, led to Ede-Borrett being in a “vulnerable” position for somebody to manipulate her and made her case quite “unique”.

Ede-Borrett was arrested on May 3, 2016 when an address in Stockwell, where she was staying at the time, was raided by police.

At the address, a Samsung tablet and phone were recovered which had indecent images on – both of which have now been forfeited.

When sentencing, Judge Dawson said: “On the basis of the facts of this case, she was being used by the looks of it.

“The man involved left it for her to take responsibility for the images and his hands were clean. Even if he was detected, because of the way he set it up, it looks as if he was making a good job of protecting himself.”

He added: “Having heard the background to this I’ve come to the conclusion that this is a situation where because of your vulnerability, you have been used by somebody in order for him to gain access to the disgusting photos.”

Judge Dawson added that because of this, a custodial sentence would not necessarily be beneficial to Ede-Borrett, or the public, as she would not be rehabilitated as well as she would away from prison.

Ede-Borrett was sentenced to a 60-day community order for all counts, and they will run concurrently.

Part of this will include a rehabilitation requirement and she will be given weekly appointments.

She will also have to sign on to the Sexual Offenders Register for five years, pay costs of £100 and a victim surcharge of £85.

As well as this, her internet use will be monitored by police.

Speaking about the case, a spokeswoman for the NSPCC said: "These crimes are far from victimless. We must not forget that behind every one of Ede-Borrett's indecent images is a child who was abused in real life in order to create them.

"Accumulating these vile images, as Ede-Borrett did, fuels the demand for more children to be abused so it is entirely right that she is now facing the consequences of her actions."