Everyday thousands of children are being sexually abused. You can stop the abuse of at least one child by simply praying. You can possibly stop the abuse of thousands of children by forwarding the link in First Time Visitor? by email, Twitter or Facebook to every Christian you know. Save a child or lots of children!!!! Do Something, please!

3:15 PM prayer in brief:
Pray for God to stop 1 child from being molested today.
Pray for God to stop 1 child molestation happening now.
Pray for God to rescue 1 child from sexual slavery.
Pray for God to save 1 girl from genital circumcision.
Pray for God to stop 1 girl from becoming a child-bride.
If you have the faith pray for 100 children rather than one.
Give Thanks. There is more to this prayer here

Please note: All my writings and comments appear in bold italics in this colour

Tuesday 31 May 2022

This Week's Catholic Pervs and Paedos List > Mission, B.C. seminary sued for CSA; 400 years of Mi'kmaq and Catholic Church; Aussie Predator Priest Dies

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Former student sues Catholic seminary and dead monk's estate

for alleged abuse


Lawsuit claims church's culture silences witnesses and whistleblowers

while enabling abusers

Jason Proctor · 
CBC News · 
Posted: Mar 17, 2022 6:00 AM PT

Harold Vincent Sander, known as Father Placidus, died last October. A former student at a Catholic seminary in Mission, B.C. is suing the Benedictine Monk's estate and the seminary over alleged sexual abuse. (Pax Regis)

WARNING: This article contains graphic content and may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or know someone affected by it. 

A former student who attended a Mission, B.C. seminary in the 1970s has filed a lawsuit against the school, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver, and the estate of a dead monk who he claims sexually assaulted him decades ago.

The alleged victim, who is applying to keep his identity anonymous, was one of three complainants in a 1990s criminal sexual assault trial that ended in the acquittal of Benedictine monk Vincent Harold Sander, known as Father Placidus.

According to a notice of civil claim filed this week in B.C. Supreme Court, the man claims Sander fondled his genitals and penetrated him anally when he was a 13-year-old student at the Seminary of Christ the King.

The lawsuit claims the church and the seminary failed to protect the alleged victim when he attended the school from September 1977 to June 1978 — instead promoting a culture that "silenced witnesses, complainants and whistleblowers" while "enabling perpetrators of sexual abuse to continue to commit their grievous crimes."

'A serious offence against God'


The alleged victim lived in a dormitory during the year he attended the seminary. He claims Sander taught art class and took an interest in a sketch he made of the monk's profile.

The alleged victim claims he attended the Seminary of Christ the King in Mission and was sexually abused when he was 13 years old. (Google Maps)

"The plaintiff subsequently attended at Sander's private office," the lawsuit reads. "Sander gestured him into the adjacent room where his pants and underwear were lowered to his ankles."

The allegations echo those contained in a case set for trial this fall against the seminary and a number of monks, including Sander, who died in Mission at age 94 in October 2021.

Both cases also name the "sole corporation" of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver — which is the legal entity that makes up the office.

In the case already underway, Mark O'Neill is suing for damages related to sexual and physical abuse he claims he suffered as a seminary student between 1974 and 1978, starting at age 13.

According to court documents, both O'Neill and the alleged victim in the suit filed this week were complainants in a criminal case against Sander, which was dismissed in December 1997.

News articles at the time said the monk admitted to a "consensual genital act" with a Grade 12 student in the 1980s during trial and admitted to kissing a student on the lips but not touching him "in any sexually inappropriate manner."

As if kissing a student on the lips is not sexually inappropriate.

Sander denied any abuse and was quoted as testifying that "what is alleged is a serious offence against a person and a serious offence against God ... Categorically, they did not happen."

So is lying! 

Culture perpetuated deviant behaviour


Last spring, the B.C. Supreme Court judge overseeing O'Neill's civil case ordered former Archbishop Adam Exner, who is in his 90s, to be questioned in preparation for trial on O'Neill's claim Exner should be held vicariously liable for abuse.

Exner was archbishop in the 90s, long after the alleged abuse, but the judge said "he was personally involved with dealing with the consequences" of the criminal trial.

According to the lawsuit filed this week, the seminary operates for the "specific purpose of enrolling teenage boys who have expressed an interest in becoming Roman Catholic priests."


In 2007, Interpol identified Christopher Paul Neil as the man in a series of "swirly face" photos that showed a man sexually abusing children. According to a lawsuit, Neil attended the Seminary of Christ the King in Mission. (Interpol)


The claim alleges three graduates have been convicted of child molestation, including Christopher Paul Neil, a notorious B.C. pedophile who became known as "Swirl Face" after he obscured his image online in photos of himself abusing young boys in Southeast Asia.

Neil was sentenced to five and a half years in jail in 2014.

The notice of claim faults the seminary and the church for alleged complicity in a culture of "entrenched clericalism and distorted beliefs that implicitly promoted the psychosexual immaturity of priests and seminarians, perpetuating sexually deviant behaviour."

The lawsuit says the "worldwide Roman Catholic Church's policies, philosophies and doctrines ... reflect this culture."

'He saw himself as a sinner'


The alleged victim claims to suffer from post-traumatic stress, chronic anger and a lack of self-worth as well as "a loss of connection to faith and a higher spiritual power."

The man is seeking damages for negligence, and wilful blindness related to what he claims is a failure by the seminary and the archbishop to advocate before the pope for "fundamental change to the structure and culture of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church to prevent sexual abuse from continually re-occurring."


Archbishop Emeritus Adam Exner has been ordered to testify in relation to a previous claim in which
he is accused of being vicariously liable for abuse at the Seminary of Christ the King in Mission.
(Archdiocese of Vancouver/WestminsterAbbey.ca)


According to his claim, the alleged victim is seeking punitive and aggravated damages against the defendants for "publicly celebrating and rejoicing" the monk's life in the last issue of Pax Regis, the seminary's bi-annual publication.

A two-page tribute to Sander said he "had been forced to come to a deep sense of his own human weakness as well as the ways that other people had been hurt by his own actions. He saw himself as a sinner in need of God's mercy."

Without going into details about the reasons, the article says Sander "humbly accepted reduced responsibilities when this became necessary; yet he began a no less active but more hidden phase of his monastic service."

"Father Placidus was realistic about the fact that, although many people counted him as a grace in their lives, not everyone had such a positive experience of him," the tribute reads.

"He responded to this hard truth by embracing a deep conversion of life with gratitude and faith."

There is hope for Sander's soul as there don't seem to be any accusations from the '1990s through the rest of his life. His awareness that he was a sinner in need of grace is a good thing and not commonly seen in most paedo-priests. It doesn't help his victims, or the victims of other paedos he might have influenced, like Chris Neil, but might get him into heaven.

None of the defendants has filed a response to the lawsuit yet.

Support is available for anyone who has been sexually assaulted. You can access crisis lines and local support services through this Government of Canada website or the Ending Violence Association of Canada database. ​​If you're in immediate danger or fear for your safety or that of others around you, please call 911.




Why a 400-year relationship between Mi'kmaq and Catholic Church

is under pressure


WARNING: This story contains distressing details


Tom Ayers · CBC News · 
Posted: Mar 26, 2022 6:00 AM AT |

The close relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the Mi'kmaq in what is now Atlantic Canada — an alliance that dates back more than 400 years — is being sorely tested after recent discoveries of unmarked graves at former residential school sites.

Some have turned away from the church, but others have maintained their faith.

"It's just sad that what happened in residential schools should never have happened," said Jeff Ward, general manager of the Membertou Heritage Park in Membertou First Nation, near Sydney, N.S.

"Those that hid behind religion, they have to answer to the Creator. They have to stand before God.

"My mom is a survivor. I'm a son of a survivor, so she told me the stories, and she's still with us today and she shares those stories with our family and it's very hard."

Starting Monday, Inuit, Métis and First Nations representatives from across Canada will be in Rome to ask Pope Francis for an apology for the intergenerational trauma created by the Roman Catholic Church's residential schools.

The Mi'kmaq started welcoming Catholic missionaries in the 1500s and formalized their connection with the church in 1610 with the baptism of Grand Chief Membertou.

Today, almost every First Nation in the Atlantic region has only one church and it is almost always Catholic.

Grand Chief Membertou allied his people with the 17th-century missionaries partly because it seemed like a pragmatic political move, said Ward.

Ward greets visitors to the heritage park with the Mi'kmaq Welcome Song, which has deep meaning, he said.


A plaque on the bust of Grand Chief Membertou outside the heritage park says the spiritual leader was also known to have the powers of healing and prophecy. (Tom Ayers/CBC)


"When I sing that song, I think of Grand Chief Membertou," Ward said.

"Our motto today is 'Welcoming the world' and sometimes I believe it's not by accident. I believe the spirits work through us today and we continue that same teaching, that same vision, that Grand Chief Membertou had."

The Mi'kmaq readily accepted the Catholic faith, Ward said, because the cross had already been an important spiritual symbol in their culture for 1,000 years before Jesus Christ.

For them, it has long represented the four directions and the balance between physical, spiritual, emotional and mental well-being.

To demonstrate that, Ward flips over his drum and points out the hand-hold is a cross.

"So when they came over with their cross, and some had circles with that cross, we said, 'Oh, they know the teaching,' so it was easy for us to welcome them," he said.


Stephen Augustine, a hereditary chief, says Roman Catholic missionaries saw value in learning to live with the Mi'kmaq and were impressed with their devoutness in the early 1600s. (Matthew Moore/CBC)


Stephen Augustine is a hereditary Mi'kmaw chief, historian and associate vice-president of Indigenous Affairs at Cape Breton University. He said Grand Chief Membertou was already a powerful figure who wanted to increase his stature by allying himself with the church.

The European newcomers also saw the value in learning to live with the Mi'kmaq, Augustine said. He noted that Jesuit missionary Father Pierre Biard was impressed with the devoutness of the Mi'kmaq in the early 1600s.

"He said the Mi'kmaw people are living the life of what Jesus would have epitomized as Christianity, espousing the values and principles of Catholicism," Augustine said.

That long-standing relationship is recognized twice a year when the Mi'kmaq travel to the small island of Mniku, also known as Chapel Island in the southeastern corner of the Bras d'Or Lake. They gather there to hold grand council meetings and church services as they have done for centuries, and also hold an annual pilgrimage to worship in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Que. 


Jeff Ward says those who have lost faith in the Roman Catholic Church need to separate the religion from the people who ran the schools, but admits that has been very difficult for some. (Matthew Moore/CBC)


Ward said the abuse inflicted on residential school students — and increasing evidence of deaths with unmarked graves found at former school sites in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia — have caused some people to lose faith in the Catholic Church. 

It has been difficult for some to separate the religion from the people who ran the schools, Ward said.

"I still help with the church," he said. "I'm part of the church committee here, but when it comes to prayer, I pray the way my elders have taught me and I conduct the ceremonies the way my elders have taught me."

Katy McEwan, 78, is a lifelong parishioner at St. Ann's Church in Membertou.

She has not lost her Catholic faith.

"There may be some that are very angry and I think it's because of the graves, the unmarked graves that are found now," McEwan said.

Her sister, Pauline Bernard, 90, said the congregation is aging and dwindling, much like it is everywhere.

But mass was held last week for the first time since the pandemic closed the church and she said there was a good turnout.

"Their faith is strong, you know, and I am really proud of them and I am so glad that they're not shaken by any of this," Bernard said.

Having a solid foundation in Mi'kmaw spirituality also helps strengthen the women's Catholic faith, both said.

"No matter what faith you belong to, your native spirituality strengthens that faith," McEwan said.


Stephen Augustine says the Mi'kmaw people do not break promises and wouldn't want to break with the vision of Grand Chief Membertou, seen here in a Membertou Heritage Park display. (Tom Ayers/CBC)


Augustine said it is not a surprise that some Mi'kmaq have maintained their devotion to Catholicism after more than four centuries.

"I think in some sense the Mi'kmaw people, the soul and the heart of the Mi'kmaw people, they're not treaty breakers, they're not promise breakers, so they don't want to break the agreement that the grand chief had with the church," he said.

Augustine is hopeful, but not optimistic, that the delegation in Rome will come away with good news.

"Pope Francis is very liberated in terms of his theology," he said. "I think he would be open, but we're talking about the church, the Vatican, so I think it would be really a miracle if they get an apology from the Pope."

An estimated 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools across Canada, most of which were run by the Catholic Church.

That experience is still an open wound, said Ward, adding that one family member who was invited to travel to the Vatican this week declined.

But true healing is possible, he said.

"I've said it before and I'll say it again: apology needs to come right from the leadership, right from your top person," Ward said.

"Forgiveness will start when it's recognized. When it's truly recognized, it will help heal entire nations."

Sydney, Nova Scotia



3rd former student alleges sexual abuse at Mission priest school in 1970s


Andrew Ehman claims senior monk ‘discreetly’ observed abuse occur in boys’ shower, did not intervene


PATRICK PENNER
May. 29, 2022 2:30 p.m. 
 


A third man has now filed a civil suit alleging sexual abuse at Mission’s minor seminary school while he was a teenager. Andrew Ehman, like the two other accusers, attended the high school seminary for aspiring priests in the 1970s.

In his civil claim, filed in BC Supreme Court on May 24, Ehman says Shawn Rohrbach was an adult student at the college seminary in 1975 when he allegedly plied Ehman with alcohol and committed sexual battery against him. Ehman was 16 at the time.

Harry Sanders (known as Father Placidus), whose estate is named in all three suits, “detected and discreetly observed” the abuse taking place in the boys’ shower room and did nothing, which allowed the abuse to continue into the boys’ dormitory, the suit alleges.

Ehman claims that, after a delay, Sander eventually reported the incident to the school’s rector, Anthony Kalberer, who had separate private meetings with Ehman and Rohrbach.

No further action was taken, and Rohrbach was not removed or disciplined, which emboldened “his predatory behaviours against other minor seminarians,” the suit alleges.

“Rohrbach was a predator skilled at grooming, preying upon, and exploiting underage boys to submit to sexual activity after plying them with alcohol.”

The first of the three former students to file a civil suit, Mark O’Neill, also claims that Rohrbach – who served as an overnight field-trip supervisor – plied him with alcohol before sexually abusing him during a hiking trip in 1978.

He also alleges an attempted rape by Rohrbach off school grounds in 1979.

All three plaintiffs name Seminary of Christ the King, Westminster Abbey (the monks run the attached high school seminary), and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver as institutional defendants.

They claim systematic negligence in failing to protect the students, and complicity in an entrenched clerical culture that promotes the “psychosexual immaturity of priests and seminarians, perpetuating sexually deviant behavior.”

All suites claim numerous convicted or credibly accused pedophiles are former students of the seminary.

The three cases are represented by the same lawyer, who has applied to have the evidence heard during the same trial on the basis of relevance. It is scheduled for Sept. 12, 2022.

All plaintiffs claim damages from a range of injuries sustained from the alleged abuse, which include PTSD, chronic anger, anxiety, dissociation, sleep disturbance, and depression, to name a few.

There is some variation in the named defendants in each suit. Ehman’s claim adds the estate of Kalberer (deceased in 2008) as a defendant for failing to intervene.

O’Neill and the other unnamed plaintiff testified at the 1997 criminal trial of Sander, which resulted in his acquittal on all six charges.

None of the allegations have been proven in court.





Paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan dead at 84


ABC Newcastle / By Giselle Wakatama
Posted Sun 29 May 2022 at 8:25pm


Ryan, known as Vince Ryan, was jailed for more than two decades for abusing 37 known victims, dating back to the 1970s.

He completed his studies in Rome a decade earlier, before becoming a parish priest in the beachside Newcastle suburb of Merewether.

He went on to work as a parish priest across the New South Wales' Hunter Valley until he was first jailed in 1996.

His abuse survivors are angry he has died without being stripped of holy orders, or defrocked.

The Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese will not comment on his death.

It was July 1995 when two men, Gerard McDonald and Scott Hallett, raised the alarm on Ryan's abuse.

Ryan preyed on both of them back in 1975 when they were primary school students at Catholic school in Merewether.

Ryan had his priestly faculties removed in the years before his death but was not laicised, meaning he retained the title of Father.

That has angered survivors.

"It is bulls**t. I am angry how he died a priest and it has got me thinking that they still support him even in death," Gerard McDonald said.

Mr Hallett agreed.

"They never address really punishing these guys and it's without question nobody deserves to be punished a lot more than he did," he said.

"There's unfinished business and people that still haven't come forward. I know people who haven't come forward; he got away with heaps."

No, he has, or has to stand before Christ in judgement - he will not get away with anything!

The biggest supporter of Ryan's victims is former New South Wales police minister Troy Grant.

Mr Grant has told the ABC he would never forget being appointed the police officer in charge when he first learned of Ryan in the mid-90's.

"From that investigation it really became a Pandora's box and ultimately led to 37 victims over a 20-year period and really disturbingly the uncovering of the church's complicity in those offences."

Ryan leaves court in 2016. (ABC News: Antoinette Lattouf)


Mr Grant noted the Ryan investigation led to judicial change. 

"It had a major impact, it was subject to a special commission of inquiry, it was a critical case in the Royal Commission and it was actually a brief examined in the NSW Police Royal Commission in the 90s," he said.

"I guess I am proud of the fact it was a case that was able to highlight the extent of the offending, the extent of the cover up and the way that investigations potentially needed to go or things that needed to be looked at that weren't traditionally done so."




Friday 27 May 2022

Perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > Senate Candidate - Ex-Wife fight; Peter Nygard to be Extradited to US; Kevin Spacey - 3 more CSA charges

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Eric Greitens, GOP Senate Candidate, Accused of Domestic Abuse

By Ex-Wife

BY LORA KORPAR 
ON 3/21/22 AT 12:34 PM EDT

Eric Greitens, a former governor of Missouri and a candidate for the U.S. Senate, was accused of domestic abuse by his ex-wife, Sheena Greitens, court documents show.

The documents in which Sheena Greitens accused her ex-husband of "unstable and coercive behavior" and abuse are part of a child custody dispute, the Associated Press reported. The allegations outlined in the court documents include Eric Greitens allegedly hitting his then-3-year-old son.

The allegations could have an effect on Greitens' chance of winning the Senate race, which has received national attention since Republican Roy Blunt announced this month that he would not seek re-election.

Eric and Sheena Greitens divorced after a 2018 sex scandal that led to Greitens' resignation as governor. The Republican faced charges of felony invasion of privacy after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman he was having an affair with and using nude photos of her as blackmail. Though he admitted to having the affair, he denied the assault allegations. The charges were eventually dropped.

In an affidavit obtained by AP, Sheena Greitens wrote that in April of 2018, she and her then-husband got into an argument and he knocked her down and took away her cellphone, wallet and keys "so that I was unable to call for help or extricate myself and our children from our home."

"I became afraid for my safety and that of our children at our home," she wrote, adding that his "behavior included physical violence toward our children, such as cuffing our then-3-year-old son across the face at the dinner table in front of me and yanking him around by his hair."

Former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens was accused of domestic abuse by his ex-wife. Above, Greitens addresses a crowd at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery on February 22, 2017, in University City, Missouri. PHOTO BY MICHAEL THOMAS/GETTY IMAGES


She added that he allegedly threatened multiple times that he would use his political influence to accuse her of child abuse and win custody of their children, and to get her fired from her job as a professor at the University of Texas, according to AP.

She also accused him in the affidavit of buying a gun and not telling her where he stored it, threatening to kill himself "unless I provided specific public political support."

In a statement sent to Newsweek, Greitens' press team said the allegations are false and "politically motivated," and accused Sheena Greitens of having a "documented history of mental illness and emotionally abusive behavior," calling her a "deranged individual."

"The fact is that Eric has maintained, and will maintain custody of his children," the statement said. "His ex-wife is engaged in a last-ditch attempt to vindictively destroy her ex-husband. Though she knows that the press will viciously repeat her false allegations, Eric has always been a great dad, who loves his boys and has always put them first, and that is why he is filing for full custody of his children."

Is Sheena really vindictive? Or, are Eric and his lawyers guilty of character assassination? The only thing we know for sure is that the children will be the losers.

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Peter Nygard to be extradited to U.S. to face charges,

justice minister says


Former designer accused of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy in New York


CBC News · 
Posted: Mar 22, 2022 12:27 PM CT 

This sketch shows Peter Nygard as he appeared at the bail decision hearing on Jan. 19, via video from the Toronto South Detention Centre. Nygard has been in custody since 2020, when he was arrested in Winnipeg under the Extradition Act after being charged with nine sex-related counts in New York. (Pam Davies)


Peter Nygard will be extradited to the United States to face charges there after the criminal charges he's facing in Canada are resolved, federal Justice Minister David Lametti announced Tuesday. 

Nygard has been awaiting the minister's decision since last fall, when he agreed to bypass the court extradition process and move straight to ministerial review by the federal justice minister. 

However, the same day Nygard consented to the ministerial review of his extradition case, Toronto police arrested him on charges of sexual assault and forcible confinement.

"It is important that our Canadian legal process is completed so that all parties, including victims, have an opportunity to see justice served," Lametti said in a tweet.

Nygard, 80, is the former head of a multimillion-dollar clothing company. He has been in custody since December 2020, when he was arrested at a Winnipeg house under the Extradition Act after he was charged with nine sex-related counts in New York.

He was denied bail on the Toronto charges in January. The Toronto case is set to return to court on March 30.




British prosecutors charge actor Kevin Spacey with

sexually assaulting 3 men

By Doug Cunningham
   
Actor Kevin Spacey was in a New York City courtroom on Thursday when the British charges were announced. He was there to testify in a civil case relating to a different sex assault accusation from 2017. File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI | License Photo

May 26 (UPI) -- Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey, who was accused five years ago of sexually assaulting a man in the 1980s, was charged on Thursday with several criminal counts also alleging sexual assault.

Britain's Crown Prosecution Service announced the charges, which include three for sexual assault and one for nonconsensual sexual activity.

The charges are based on the accusations of three men who said the incidents occurred in Britain over an eight-year period from 2005 to 2013.

"The authority to charge follows a review of the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police in its investigation," the CPS said in a statement Thursday.

"The function of the CPS is not to decide whether a person is guilty of a criminal offense, but to make fair, independent and objective assessments about whether it is appropriate to present charges for a criminal court to consider," the agency added.

The sexual assaults that Spacey is being charged with occurred in London and Gloucestershire, prosecutors said.

Actor Kevin Spacey is seen at a film festival in Deauville, France, on September 9, 2008. Two of the charges filed against him on Thursday say that two of the alleged offenses occurred that same year in London. File Photo by David Silpa/UPI

The incidents related to the three assault charges occurred in both cities in 2005, 2008 and 2013 and the accustion of nonconsensual activity occurred in London in 2008, according to the complaint.

Incidentally, Spacey was in a New York City courtroom on Thursday when the new charges were announced, where he was scheduled to testify in a civil case relating to the sex assault accusation in 2017.

The accusation five years ago was made by fellow actor Anthony Rapp, who said at the time that he was sexually assaulted by Spacey in the mid-1980s while both were acting on Broadway. Rapp was about 15 at the time and Spacey was 27.

Spacey responded to Rapp's accusation in 2017 by saying that he didn't remember the encounter, but that he was "beyond horrified" to hear about it. The two-time Oscar winner also announced in his response that he is gay.

Spacey won Academy Awards for his performances in American Beauty (1999) and The Usual Suspects (1996). Rapp has also appeared in various films, including Dazed and Confused (1993) and A Beautiful Mind (2001).



This Week's Global Pervs and Paedos List > Female Paedo may get Life; UK teacher gets 138 years in Spain

Female paedophile, 37, may be jailed for life for raping and

 sexually abusing 13-y/o girl in 'shockingly depraved' attacks

that were filmed and photographed

By CHRIS MATTHEWS FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 14:41 EDT, 25 March 2022

A female paedophile who admitted raping and sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl could be jailed for life, the judge presiding over her case said.

Vicki Bevan, 37, from St Helens, Merseyside, pleaded guilty to 36 sexual offences against the child at an earlier hearing, including one count of rape and five counts of assault by penetration. 

Judge Andrew Menary QC, the Recorder of Liverpool, said of her crimes were 'shockingly depraved' and 'just when you think you have heard the worst, another one comes along'.

He said he was considering a life sentence for rapist Bevan. 

Vicki Bevan, 37, (pictured) pleaded guilty to 36 sexual offences in Liverpool Crown Court, including one count of rape and five of assault by penetration against a child

Bevan sexually abused a vulnerable victim with Paul Rafferty, 62, and also molested her with a second man, Tony Hutton, 42.

The horrific sexual abuse was filmed and photographed and images were shared between the group, along with twisted messages. 

The three paedophiles, all from St Helens, appeared in the dock for sentence at Liverpool Crown Court this morning, when Bevan laughed and smiled with security officers, before wiping away tears with a white tissue when the judge came into court.

Bevan was due to be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday. 

Yet Judge Menary adjourned sentencing, saying he was considering an 'indefinite' or life sentence for Bevan and wanted written submissions on the matter from her lawyers before he decides.

Bevan has also pleaded guilty to 17 counts of making an indecent image of a child, with two of these counts made up of 52 photos of penetrative sex.

She admitted two counts of possessing extreme pornography, relating to 100 'grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise obscene' animal porn images.   

Judge Menary added: 'Of particular concern to the court is the fact that there are exchanges of messages which are shockingly depraved fantasies. They did not remain as fantasies. Some of these were played out in real life.

'Just when you think you have heard the worst, another one comes along. It's all of that, that the court will be concerned with.'

Judge Menary said any 'blame sharing' claim by Bevan in her defence, that she was 'led on' by the others, will not be accepted. 

The girl involved, as a victim of sexual offences, cannot be identified. 

Rafferty has pleaded guilty to 10 sexual offences, including rape and Hutton has pleaded guilty to four sexual offences. All three were remanded into custody to be sentenced on May 13 when the full facts of the case will be opened in court.

The judge said written submissions from Mr Duffy and Martine Snowdon, prosecuting, should consider Bevan's 'risk in the future and the extent to which it might be said the underlying health or mental health issues have an impact on her culpability'.

Judge Menary asked Rafferty and Hutton's lawyers to make submissions on their 'risk and dangerousness'. 

The judge noted in interviews the three defendants took part in with the Probation Service for pre-sentence reports there was 'a degree of blame sharing' and asked whether this would be relied upon at sentence.

Tom Watson, defending Hutton, told the court he 'takes full responsibility for his offending despite what your Lordship may have seen in the report'. He said: 'He will not veer away from taking full responsibility for each of the offences he's pleaded guilty to.'

Judge Menary told Mr Duffy: 'I'm bound to say if your client suggests she was encouraged and got led on by others, it would not be accepted.' Mr Duffy said this would not be put forward by Bevan.

Simon Christie, defending Rafferty, said his client had not gone 'quite as far' in his comments for the report. Like Hutton, Rafferty showed no emotion in the dock.

Judge Menary said he would adjourn sentencing until May 13 and remanded the three defendants in custody. He ordered all three defendants to be in person for the sentencing as opposed to via video link. 

However, he said he would consider written submissions from Mr Duffy on this point. If the three paedophiles are found to be dangerous offenders they may receive extended sentences. They would then have to spend at least two thirds - rather than the usual half of any custodial term - behind bars, before they could apply for parole.

At that stage, if they were no longer considered to be a risk, they could be released on licence.

However, if Bevan's crimes are deemed to be serious enough to warrant a life sentence, she would instead be given a minimum term in prison, which she would have to serve in its entirety. 

Only once that minimum term was complete would she be able to apply for parole and, if and when she was released, she would be subject to licence conditions for the rest of her life.





British paedophile teacher who changed his name to work at a Madrid private school where he continued to commit sex crimes is given a 138-year jail sentence

By GERARD COUZENS FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 12:02 EDT, 26 May 2022 | UPDATED: 12:02 EDT, 26 May 2022

A paedophile teacher who changed his name after being convicted of sex crimes in the UK has been handed a 138-year jail sentence in Spain.

Ben David Rose used forged legal references to get jobs abroad after he emigrated with a new identity following his prison let-off in England.

Today he was warned he faced the next two decades behind bars in Spain after being found guilty of abusing the trust of his employers to commit a new string of crimes against children as young as seven.

The 33-year-old deviant, tried behind closed doors during a three-day trial at Madrid's Provincial Court at the start of May, is expected to serve 20 years in prison despite the longer sentence he has received.

David Rose, previously known as Ben David Lewis before he changed his name by deed poll, was handed a two-year suspended jail term in June 2016 at St Albans Court for sex crimes he committed at a summer camp he founded.

A paedophile teacher who changed his name after being convicted of sex crimes in the UK has been handed a 138 year jail sentence in Spain

His first victims in Spain were the parents of three children based in the northern city of Zaragoza he tricked into hiring him two months later as an au pair.

He photographed them naked before posting sick snaps with his photoshopped private parts added in on underground child porn sites.

Three judges also ruled it had been proven in a 72-page sentencing document released today he had humiliated one of the girls he was paid to look after by pleasuring himself on a plate of spaghetti he then fed to her.

The pervert subsequently moved to Madrid where he got teaching jobs including one at a private school by forging legal references with a shop-bought rubber stamp.

David Rose also changed the numbers on one of his two passports to cheat background checks and worm his way into the lives of more than 30 seven and eight-year-old girls he abused at one school alone.

Prosecutors said in an indictment submitted to the court ahead of his trial the Brit paedophile also cheated Spanish criminal record checks by using a copy of an Israeli passport he had obtained in the name of Ben David Rose and doctored by changing the long MRZ number.

He took upskirt photos of the young girls at the school where he committed most of his offences.

Prosecutors went to trial seeking jail sentences totalling 220 years for the computer whizz kid.

The three judges who convicted and imprisoned him found him guilty of eight counts of making child pornography, a crime of inflicting degrading treatment on another person, 32 privacy offences and one count of forgery.

As well as being handed a lengthy prison sentence, he was also ordered to pay his victims compensation ranging from £2,500 to just over £5,000 each.

The judges called the Brit pervert's crimes 'serious' in their lengthy written ruling, adding: 'It's going to be very difficult for the children's parents to return to the situation they were in before the offender committed them, even though they receive economic compensation.'

Ben David Rose was arrested in June 2020 and held in custody on remand until his conviction.

Spanish police only went public with the detention in April last year 10 months after he was held.

Detectives said specialist police in the Australian city of Queensland had tipped them off about a 'sexual predator' they believed was in Spain who they identified following a complex probe slowed down by the suspect's encryption techniques.

They revealed he had a criminal record in his native UK and accused him of targeting 36 children aged four to eight after tricking his way into the Spanish education system - but didn't name him or go into detail about how he allegedly duped the system.

Ben David Lewis, as he was known before he left the UK, was arrested in August 2015 after a worker at a summer camp he founded, LL Camps in Bushey, Hertfordshire, found naked photos of children as young as three on his iPhone.

Sandra Vicente told St Albans Crown Court she felt like her brain had been 'polluted' after chancing upon the snaps.

She was given the phone and entry PIN by the then-26-year-old to play music at a children's party but found the images in the deleted items after 'getting nosey' and went to police.

Officers found a pair of child's underwear next to his laptop as well as videos he had taken by pointing his camera up the skirt of a young girl he was tutoring.

Prosecutor Ann Evans said police found searches on one of his iPod Touches such as 'Can a sex offender go to the USA?, 'Accidental downloading child porn' and 'How do police search computers?'

He pleaded guilty to three counts of downloading indecent images and one of taking indecent images but was spared prison after claiming he wanted to get married and have children.

He was also ordered to register as a sex offender indefinitely.

The American-style summer camp he set up with a friend was closed down by Ofsted.

His dad Larry Lewis, from Borehamwood, Herts, was charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice shortly after his son's detention but the allegations against him were dropped before trial.

The Brit paedophile changed his name by deed poll the day after his conviction.

Emily Konstantas, CEO of the Safeguarding Alliance said after news of his arrest emerged before he was formally charged by Spanish prosecutors: 'It doesn't surprise me if this man has changed his name and gone abroad with a new identity.

'As shocking as this is, it's not new and it's continue to happen unless the UK gets a grip on their sex offenders. Our failure, a UK failure, is putting the rest of the world at risk.'