‘Evil’ paedophile ring handed prison sentences after sex assaults on baby and toddlers

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Members of a British paedophile ring who attacked babies and toddlers and streamed the abuse online have been sentenced to a total of 78 years in prison today&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The judge at Bristol Crown Court described all seven men as &&num;8220&semi;beyond human instinct and evil&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They had been convicted of 30 child sex abuse offences&comma; including conspiracy to rape and the rape of a child under the age of 13&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They then used their crimes as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;currency” with other paedophiles in order to exchange other material&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Passing sentence at Bristol Crown Court&comma; Judge Julian Lambert said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In the worst nightmare&comma; from the very deepest recesses of the mind&comma; at the darkest hour of the night&comma; few can have imagined the terrifying depravity which you men admit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What you contemplated and what you did involved the most horrific abuse of a baby and very young children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Your thoughts and deeds are beyond human instinct and reason&comma; and are evil beyond rational understanding&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You men indulged yourselves in some of the most depraved and grossly deviant behaviour imaginable&period; The depth to which you sank is astounding and highly shocking to all decent people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What you did is contrary to all nature and humanity and you each appear to have a chilling tendency to centre the world on yourselves and your depraved desires without regard for the innocent and vulnerable&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Your conduct is of deep concern to the public and people are outraged at what you have done&period; What you did provokes tears in many and makes others feel physically sick&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Given the strength of public feeling I consider that retribution has a very large part to play in the sentencing exercise&period; This is no case for treatment and rehabilitation outside prison&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The group will remain on licence when released&comma; and then be placed on the sex offenders&&num;8217&semi; register for life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The ring preyed on the families of the youngsters they targeted&comma; in one case grooming a mother and father before their baby was born&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Members would often travel long distances to carry out sickening attacks together&comma; or watch the abuse over the internet if only one had access to a victim&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chilling online chat revealed that members of the gang&comma; who lived across the UK&comma; would offer advice to others on how to drug young victims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The seven men are aged between 31 and 51 and include three previously convicted sex offenders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Robin Hollyson &lpar;previously known as Robin Fallick&rpar;&comma; 31&comma; of Bedfordshire<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pleaded guilty to three counts of rape of a child under 13&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hollyson befriended a couple with a baby and was allowed to babysit&period; He then filmed the rape of the child and sent it to others&period; A copy of the film was recovered from co-accused John Denham’s computer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy to rape a child under 13&comma; sexual assault of a child under 13&comma; and taking&comma; showing&comma; possessing indecent images of children and extreme pornography&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hollyson received a 24-year prison sentence plus an extension of eight years on licence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The judge told him&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You determined cruelly and callously to exploit a family and prey on their baby for your perverted sexual purposes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You were keen to involve others in your deviant sexual activity&period; You determined to share the abuse of the baby with other perverted men and to publish your corrupt sexual exploits in the darkest parts of cyberspace&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Christopher Knight&comma; 35&comma; of Manchester<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pleaded guilty to the rape of a child under 13&comma; two counts of conspiracy to rape a child under 13&comma; two counts of sexual assault of a child under 13&comma; and taking&comma; showing&comma; possessing indecent images of children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Knight used chatroom names including &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;smlad79” on Skype&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He received an 18-year sentence plus an extension of six years on licence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The judge told him&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You were a leading light in the group plotting the sexual abuse of children&period; Your dark fantasies were prominent in recruiting some members of the group&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You bear a heavy burden of responsibility for exciting perverted desires in others and for recruiting others into very serious conspiracies to rape&period; Your involvement in these matters is extensive and serious&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Adam Toms&comma; 33&comma; of Yeovil&comma; Somerset<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pleaded guilty to the rape of a child under 13&comma; two counts of sexual assault of a child under 13&comma; administering a substance in order to carry out sexual activity&comma; and taking&comma; showing&comma; possessing indecent images of children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Toms received a 12-year sentence plus an extension of four years on licence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The judge told him&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You have abused a baby and a little boy directly and are responsible for collecting and disseminating indecent images&comma; which indirectly leads to the further abuse of children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What you did directly was serious in the extreme and although your conscience eventually prevailed above your lust there must still be a very significant sentence&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Matthew Stansfield&comma; 35&comma; of Hampshire<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pleaded not guilty to two counts of conspiracy to rape a child under 13 but was convicted by a jury after trial&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pleaded guilty to breaching a sex offenders’ prevention order&comma; and making and possessing indecent images of children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Stansfield&comma; who runs his own business&comma; has a previous conviction from May last year for possessing child abuse images&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His chatroom names include &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;pervpo”&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;pompeylad1980”&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;mstans1980”&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;pervlad111”&comma; domtop1980&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote; and ”londonlad1980&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Stansfield received a 10-year sentence plus an extension of four years on licence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The judge told him&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You have a long-standing and deeply entrenched longing for sexual experiences with children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I conclude that you are dangerous in that there is a significant risk of serious harm to others from the commission of further specified offences by you&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>David Harsley&comma; 51&comma; of Hull<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sexual activity with a child under 13&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The hospital worker befriended a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;vulnerable” pregnant single woman having met her at a social club&period; He was looking after the boy&comma; now aged four&comma; and committed a sex act in front of the child while John Denham and Matthew Lisk watched over Skype from a hotel room&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Harsley was jailed for two years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The judge told him&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A pre-sentence report assesses that you present a high risk of sexual recidivism and that the impact of further offending by you would be serious in the sense that it would be long-lasting and difficult or impossible to recover from&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>John Denham &lpar;previously known as Benjamin Harrop&rpar;&comma; 50&comma; of Wiltshire<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to rape a child under 13 and was acquitted by a jury following trial&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pleaded not guilty to one count of conspiracy to sexually assault a child under 13 but was convicted by the jury&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to sexually assault a child under 13&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Denham&comma; a former actor turned events manager&comma; was in a hotel room with Matthew Lisk while Harsley was with the child&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pleaded guilty to possessing&comma; making and distributing indecent images of children and extreme pornography&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The married father of two used chatroom names including &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;jackharper007”&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;k9party”&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;lovethem2dontu”&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;ijustlovethem-uk”&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;babyf&ast;&ast;&ast;er” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;dirtydeviluk”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Denham received an eight-year sentence plus an extension of four years on licence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The judge told him&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You have shown a deeply disturbing sexual interest in the young&period; I am driven to the conclusion that you pose a significant risk to the young in future&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Matthew Lisk&comma; 33&comma; of East Sussex<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sexual activity with a child under 13&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lisk was in a hotel room with Denham while Harsley was with the child&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pleaded guilty to making&comma; possessing and distributing indecent images of children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lisk received a four-year sentence plus an extension of three years on licence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The judge told him&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The images you retained involved a very large amount of category A material&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In over 11 years on the bench these are the worst abuse images I have seen among the tens of thousands I have considered it my duty to view&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ian Glover&comma; of the UK&&num;8217&semi;s National Crime Agency&comma; described the inquiry as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;extremely challenging”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have had to investigate contact offences with extremely young children and a linked international network of paedophiles&comma;” the senior investigator said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is by far the worst paedophile group I have investigated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They are abusing extremely young children&comma; they are ingratiating themselves with families and not only are they abusing victims but then putting it out on the world wide web for others to see&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Then they are linking with further paedophile groups abroad who are conducting the same abuse and sharing the results of that abuse&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Glover said Hollyson groomed a pregnant mother and her partner in order to win their trust and get access to their child once it was born&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Other members of the group have also groomed other families&comma; got themselves into a position of trust&comma; so they can commit offences against these victims&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Once they have committed offences they are linking in with other members of the group&comma; using new technology and streaming offences over the internet for the sexual gratification of the other paedophiles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They then arrange to meet up and abuse some of the victims as a group&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Some of the victims have been treated as a commodity&comma; to be passed onto others and to be filmed&comma; to be abused and that abuse shown to other paedophiles as a form of currency&comma; so they can get other material back and access to other children&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Glover said that because of the age of the victims&comma; a case was built using data retrieved from internet service providers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;During this investigation there were no witnesses as the victims were too young to give evidence – they couldn’t speak up for themselves&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So we had to go out and find that data and other evidence to convict these paedophiles&period; Law enforcement only gets 12 months to obtain that data from the service providers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;One thing to bear in mind is once this data is gone&comma; it’s gone – it’s destroyed&period; This hampers the investigation and we can’t then go and link paedophiles together&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In this case we didn’t start the investigation until nine months after some offences&comma; so it left us a very short period of time to obtain that data&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Glover said officers from the National Crime Agency had shared intelligence gathered on other paedophiles during the investigation with authorities from across the world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are expecting more convictions in the UK and abroad&period; Our investigation continues and we have got other offenders on bail at this moment in time&comma;” he added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e8019a46">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; 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