A pervert who filmed himself repeatedly raping a young girl, groomed a second victim and possessed a large collection of child abuse imagery has been jailed for 16 years.
Lee Stuart Curley used his mobile phone and iPad to take more than 120 videos and images of the "depraved" sexual assaults on the victim aged under 13.
The
36-year-old, from Tower Hamlets, east London, was described in court as
a predatory sex offender after details of the assaults, which took
place between May 2015 and March 2016, were read out.
A veteran police officer called it one of the worst cases she has ever dealt with.
A c ourt heard that a second victim was groomed by Curley over a two-year period between 2012 and 2014.
He also owned more than 1,000 videos and images of children being abused.
Curley
was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court today to a total of 16 years'
imprisonment and will be subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for
life.
He did his best to thwart investigators, denying the sexual attacks and claiming he had no knowledge of any indecent images.
But he was charged on March 8, three days after his arrest.
Despite
initially pleading not guilty at court, Curley changed his plea at a
subsequent hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court on May 17, when presented
with the weight of evidence against him.
He pleaded guilty to
four offences in relation to the assaults on the young girl - sexual
assault of a girl under 13, possessing an extreme pornographic image
portraying rape, possessing indecent photographs of a child and making
indecent photographs of a child.
He was also charged with six offences in relation to grooming, and
pleaded guilty to three offences of inciting a girl aged 13 to 15 to
engage in sexual activity and three offences of causing a child under 13
to look at an image of sexual activity.
DC Carla Goymer-Ellice
of the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command, said: "My
thoughts throughout this inquiry have been with those who suffered at
the hands of this man.
"In 14 years of investigating serious and sexual crime, this was one of the worst cases I have dealt with.
"It
was a terrible series of assaults that upset even experienced
investigators, but we were all fully committed to bringing the man
responsible to justice."
source: Uk mirror
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