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Paedophile facing jail for child sex offences is arrested by police
in Dover after being found hiding in lorry bound for France
By CHARLOTTE MITCHELL FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 14:05 EDT, 4 August 2021
A fugitive paedophile was arrested by police in Dover after being found hiding in a lorry bound for France.
Mezbaha Uddin is now facing a long spell in jail after a jury convicted him of a string of child sex offences.
The 39-year-old had been under investigation by Nottinghamshire Police in relation to a series of offences between September 2018 and July 2020.
A jury has now found him guilty of 16 child sex offences including 10 counts of attempting to engage in sexual communications with a child and six counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
He is due to be sentenced on October 22.
Canterbury Crown Court heard that Uddin's arrest followed an allegation of sexual communication with a child in Nottinghamshire in July 2019. Jurors heard that Uddin had communicated with a decoy account set up by an online child activist group.
A jury at Canterbury Crown Court (pictured) has found Mezbaha Uddin guilty of 16 child sex offences including 10 counts of attempting to engage in sexual communications with a child and six counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity [File photo]
The group alerted police when he sent indecent images of himself and arranged to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old girl in Mansfield.
Uddin was arrested and his mobile phone was seized.
Messages from a chatroom website found that Uddin had attempted to engage in sexual communications with more than a dozen underage girls, in some instances with a view to meeting them in person. On other occasions, he encouraged girls to engage in sexual activity while he watched.
Detective Constable Stuart Dolby, of Nottinghamshire Police's public protection team, welcomed the convictions. 'This was a complex and thorough investigation which included disturbing evidence for our officers to deal with.
'I am pleased with the verdicts and I hope they send a clear message that Nottinghamshire Police will do what is necessary to tackle these crimes and to protect the most vulnerable people in our communities.
'Child sex offences of any kind are taken incredibly seriously and we have a number of tactics in place to catch offenders out. No child should be subjected to any sexual offence and it's our duty to protect them.'
Florida Man, Former Marine Sentenced To 35 Years,
Sexually Abused Child While Stationed In Japan
Maria Hernandez
August 5, 2021
A Florida man was sentenced today to 35 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for enticing and sexually abusing a minor.
On August 17, 2020, Emilio R. Moran, Jacksonville, pled guilty to the charges.
According to court documents and other information presented in court, Moran, 39, enticed a minor into a prolonged sexual relationship while living in Okinawa, Japan.
Moran, a former U.S. Marine, was working in Okinawa at the time of the crime. Moran used text messages and gifts to entice the minor into the illicit relationship.
The sexual relationship ended when the parents of the minor discovered it and reported the crime to investigators with the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
Moran was court-martialed on April 19, 2016, in an unrelated case.
For two years beginning in February 2013 and continuing until January 2015, the appellant engaged in an adulterous relationship on and around Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan, with the wife of a civilian government employee.
During the first year of their affair, the appellant and Mrs. P engaged in sexual relations two or three times per week. Over the last year of the relationship, they engaged in sexual relations weekly, primarily during the appellant’s working hours while he was in uniform.
Moran and Mrs. P’s sexual relationship involved rough sex, choking, anal intercourse, and rape fantasies and regularly occurred inside military buildings, in personal vehicles parked on base, outside Mrs. P’s residence, and in a park off base.
Additionally, on three occasions Mrs. P traveled to Combat Town, near Camp Hansen, to engage in sex with the Moran while he was engaged in-field training.
On one occasion, they engaged in sexual intercourse while the appellant was on duty as the Assistant Regimental Duty Officer (ARDO). On a separate, similar occasion, Moran allowed Mrs. P to use his service-issued duty pistol in a sexual manner:
Moran attempted to insert the pistol into [Mrs. P’s] vagina, but [Mrs. P] told Moran to stop because it was hurting her. Then Moran inserted the pistol into her mouth. [Mrs. P] remembers the taste of metal in her mouth. The pistol was placed on top of the holster while [the appellant and Mrs. P] engag[ed] in sexual intercourse.
This act occurred in her van in the command parking lot while the appellant was present and on duty as ARDO. Throughout their lengthy relationship, both Moran and Mrs. P were married to other people.
During presentencing, the Moran introduced evidence of his prior service, including two Combat Action Ribbons and a Purple Heart received in 2007 for injuries occurring while deployed to Afghanistan. This evidence was also presented to the convening authority for clemency consideration.
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and G. Norman Acker, III, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina made the announcement after sentencing by U.S. District Judge James C. Dever III. The United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations and Homeland Security Investigations investigated the case and U.S. Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section Trial Attorney Charles Schmitz and Assistant U.S. Attorney John Parris prosecuted the case.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.
Bradford child sex abuse probe: West Yorkshire Police arrest 19 men
Alleged offences relating to one girl ‘happened up to 21 years ago’
Jane Dalton
The Independent
1 day ago
Police investigating child sexual abuse claims in Bradford have arrested 19 men.
The offences, which allegedly happened between 2000 and 2005, relate to one girl, detectives say.
The men were arrested at addresses in the Bradford district during a month-long operation, according to West Yorkshire Police.
All 19, aged between 36 and 55, have been interviewed and released pending further enquiries.
Does anyone care to bet on whether they are all Pakistani Muslims?
Detective Chief Inspector Alan Weekes, of Bradford District Police, said: “This investigation forms part of West Yorkshire Police’s ongoing commitment to the investigation of both current and non-recent sexual offences against children.
“Tackling child abuse and safeguarding children is not something that any one agency can do in isolation though, which is why we work closely with local authorities and other organisations and charities to support victims, bring offenders to justice and make our communities safer.”
He urged anyone who had been a victim of sex abuse to report it to police, insisting they would be “listened to, taken seriously and supported by professionals”.
Man jailed over 'most grotesque' child sexual abuse material
Marine Lourens
16:06, Aug 04 2021
Joshua Alan Bainton has been sentenced to three years’ jail for his collection of “horrific” objectionable material.
A 24-year-old man had thousands of videos and photos depicting sexual abuse, exploitation and torture of children as young as 6 months old – a stash a district court judge described as the most offensive material he had come across in his career.
Joshua Alan Bainton was sentenced on five counts of possession of an objectionable publication in the Christchurch District Court on Wednesday.
The charges are all representative, meaning they represent multiple incidents of a similar offence.
Judge Tom Gilbert described the images and videos found in Bainton’s possession as “the most repellant and grotesque material imaginable”.
“I have been involved in this type of work for about 15 years and I can’t remember ever coming across material as offensive as this, which is saying something,” the judge said.
“It is important to remember that whilst you are just looking at the screen, at the end of the lens is a little kid who is being abused and defiled in the worst way imaginable. This is not a victimless crime.”
While the nature of the material was “horrific”, the judge took into account Bainton’s attempts at rehabilitation since his arrest, the fact he had co-operated with the investigation, and his guilty pleas. The judge said some credit could also be given for Bainton’s young age.
He sentenced Bainton to three years’ imprisonment.
Bainton’s name would also be added to the Child Sex Offender Register.
According to the Department of Internal Affairs’ summary of facts, Bainton created an account on an online cloud storage service on July 5, 2019. He used the account two months later to import a selection of files, including a video containing multiple images stitched together.
All the images were sexually explicit and involved children aged 1-6 years.
Between July 5, 2019, and February 4, 2020, Bainton used the account to save 6644 photos and videos that were classified as objectionable publications, including 6496 depicting child sexual abuse and exploitation.
The material included 165 files showing “extreme” abuse of children aged as young as 1 year.
More than 2000 files showed sexual activity between children and adults.
Bainton closed his account on February 4, 2020, but created another one that he used to access more objectionable material. He closed this account on March 31 but opened another one on May 4 and used it to save 424 objectionable videos and images.
He closed the account the same day.
The man also used a chat application to talk about the objectionable material and to trade files with others. The summary of facts said he spoke with another person about their desire to “touch little kids” on February 11, 2021.
Bainton claimed to have shared the child sexual abuse material with only one person and said that person had initially provided the material to him. The person had threatened him with exposure if he did not make the files available, he said.
Tim Houston, the manager of the Department of Internal Affairs’ digital child exploitation team, said the investigation into Bainton’s activities highlighted the importance of detecting and prosecuting this type of crime.
“Possessing and sharing child sexual exploitation and abuse material perpetuates a horrific cycle of revictimisation. This is not a victimless crime.
“This material depicts a crime scene and the worst moments in a child’s life that has been captured and disseminated across the internet by offenders,” he said.
“Child Rape Gang Police Whistleblower: Child Sex Abuse is
‘Going on Everywhere’ in the UK,”
by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart,
July 29, 2021:
Former detective turned grooming gang whistleblower Maggie Oliver said that the apologies offered in the lastest review to child rape victims in Bradford are “pointless” and that the scourge of rape gangs persists “everywhere” in the UK.
An independent review into five child grooming cases in Bradford, West Yorkshire since 2001 found that “children suffered abuse no child should have to experience”.
The review repeated the oft-heard refrain from such findings that the Bradford Partnership “fully accepts more needs to be done”.
“We want to apologise to the young people identified in this report and any others where the actions of agencies in Bradford has failed to protect them from child sexual exploitation.”
One of the victims highlighted in the report, referred to as Anna, was placed into the care of foster parents whose son was her abuser.
Anna was then forced into an Islamic wedding with her abuser after becoming pregnant at the age of fifteen, all of which, she claimed, was sanctioned by Bradford authorities.
“While in the ‘care’ of these adults, she was subjected to further sexual abuse and exploitation, domestic abuse, including assaults and coercion and what we would now recognise as domestic slavery,” the report revealed.
Anna said that the agencies “just ignored the abuse”, destroying her childhood.
“We’re now 15 years on and as a result of what I learned after resigning, I started the Maggie Oliver Foundation where we help survivors and victims of child abuse every single day,” she told GB News.
“I can tell you that in the last six months,
we are dealing with 31 cases from West Yorkshire, alone.
“Bradford is just another case, this is going on everywhere. What we’re finding in the foundation is that the worst cases that we are aware of are West Yorkshire and in [Greater Manchester]”.
Another victim cited in the latest review, Fiona Goddard — who waived her life-long right to anonymity — said that the Bradford police and council had many opportunities to stop her abuse and “nip it in the bud” but they “never did”.
Goddard, who was the victim of sexual abuse by the 2008 Bradford grooming gangs, said: “I reported it multiple times – physical abuse, sexual abuse or rapes – and they were never followed up on."
In 2019, nine Bradford men, Basharat Khaliq, Saeed Akhtar, Naveed Akhtar, Parvaze Ahmed, Zeeshan Ali, Fahim Iqbal, Izar Hussain, Mohammed Usman and Kieran Harris were convicted of rape and inciting child prostitution against girls as young as fourteen years old starting in 2008.
The jury in the trial heard that local authorities were aware that at least one of the girl victims in the case was “being picked up by multiple Asian males in smart cars”.
One of the victims in the case told the court: “I struggle to leave the house due to anxiety which prevents me from living a full life, and have spent my adult life on medication,” adding that “the drug and alcohol misuse has had a large effect on my health, such as abnormal liver function.”
Maggie Oliver said that the survivors of grooming gangs and other child abuse crimes feel as if they have no one to turn to, saying: “They’re being blamed, they’re being ignored. There are cover-ups and there is a lack of concern.
“These children are in care they are taken away from homes because they are deemed to be at risk. I would argue that they are being put into situations that are even more risky than when they’re in their own home”
“It destroys lives and it’s about time that we did something as a country to address it.”
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