Female babysitter asked to care for disabled children because her pedophile boyfriend liked sexually abusing them
A babysitter who wanted to gain access to young special needs children so that her pedophile boyfriend could abuse them has been sentenced to 100 years in prison.
Brittney Lyon, 31, procured at least four young girls, two aged three and two aged seven, for her partner Samuel Cabrera, 31, to molest while she participated in 2016.
San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan released a statement about the horrific case on Thursday, saying Lyon had been sentenced to 100 years or life in jail.
Stephan said that two of the girls had an autism diagnosis, and one was non-verbal. She slammed Lyon's abuse as 'despicable' and 'ruthless'.
Lyon, of San Marcos, California, pleaded guilty in May to two felony counts of lewd act upon a child and two counts of forcible lewd act upon a child.
She also admitted to several counts of kidnapping, residential burglary and sexually assaulting multiple victims.
Meanwhile, her pedophile boyfriend, Cabrera, was previously convicted by a jury in 2019 and sentenced to eight life terms without parole in 2021.
Officials became aware of the abuse one of the seven-year-old girls told her mother in 2016 that she no longer wanted to go anywhere with Lyon, who was a family friend.
Brittney Lyon (left), 31, procured at least four young girls, two aged three and two aged seven, for her partner Samuel Cabrera (pictured), also 31, to molest while she participated in 2016
San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan (pictured) released a statement about the horrific case on Thursday, saying Lyon had been sentenced to 100 years or life in jail
Police investigated Lyon and Cabrera, and found a double-locked box in his car containing six computer hard drives containing hundreds of videos of the abuse.
They showed the couple sexually abusing the children and even drugging them, while 'using extreme cruelty and brutality', according to the attorney's office.
'In addition to the videos of the young victims, there were dozens of videos that Lyon had taken surreptitiously of women and girls in changing rooms at clothing stores, bathrooms and locker rooms at various North County businesses,' Stephan said.
After the first child came forward, police tracked down parents who had hired Lyon, who had posted her babysitting services online.
The other three victims had responded to Lyon's ad saying she wanted to work with special needs children specifically.
Police also seized phones belonging to Lyon and Cabrera, and found messages showing them regularly coordinating access to the children at their houses.
'Today's just sentence ends a despicable chapter that has destroyed innocence and devastated families in San Diego County,' DA Stephan said on Thursday.
'This defendant was ruthless in posing as a trustworthy babysitter and recruiting autistic children, only to commit the most atrocious acts upon them.'
Pictured: Lyon's photographs from her babysitting adverts, where she said she wanted to work with special needs children specifically. She has been convicted of two felony counts of lewd act upon a child and two counts of forcible lewd act upon a child, the DA's office said
Pictured: The home in Carlsbad, California, where police say Lyon was bringing two seven-year-old girls to her boyfriend, Cabrera, who would then molest them while she filmed
Though Stephan sentenced Lyon to 100 years in jail, under current laws she will be eligible for parole at age 50, meaning she will only have served 28 years.
Stephan is pushing legislation to exclude convicted sex offenders from the elderly parole laws under the proposed Senate Bill 286.
The bill was tabled by State Senator Brian Jones, but it is currently in the suspense file of the Senate Appropriations Committee meaning it won't be debated for a while.
Jones has cited Lyon's case to argue for his proposed legislation to be expedited.
'After the horrific sexual crimes Brittney Lyon committed against children, District Attorney Summer Stephan did her job in securing a just sentence of 100 years-to-life,' he said.
'Now, it's time for the state to do its job and honor that sentence for the sake of the victims.
'Shamefully, a loophole in California law could allow Lyon to walk free after serving less than a third of her sentence.
'Senate Bill 286 would close that loophole and ensure violent child rapists serve their full sentences.
'I'm calling on my Democrat colleagues to stop protecting predators, move this important bill forward, and deliver justice for victims.'
Former doctor jailed for child sex offences
A former hospital consultant who had more than 90,000 images of children has been jailed for more than three years.
Dr Matthew Isles, who worked as an ear, nose and throat specialist, had built up a "staggeringly vast" collection of indecent images over five years, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court was told on Wednesday.
The 53-year-old also tried to engage in sexual conversation with someone he believed was a 14-year-old boy, the court heard.
Judge Richard McConaghy jailed Isles for three years and 10 months in relation to 13 offences in all.
The consultant, who had worked at the Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital in Stafford and had a 22-year career in the armed forces before that, admitted the charges at a previous hearing.
They included two counts of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child, voyeurism, three counts of making indecent images of children, possession of a paedophile manual, three counts of distributing indecent images of children, possession of prohibited images of children and two counts of possessing extreme pornographic images.
"Each and every image depicts a real child suffering real sexual abuse, some of it of the most depraved kind imaginable," the judge said.
Prosecution counsel Hunter Gray told the court that Isles engaged in "sexually explicit conversation of a grooming nature" with an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old boy on a gay dating site between 25 January and 6 February.
While he initially ended the chat after finding out the age of the boy he believed he was speaking to, saying he did not want to be sent to prison, Isles later continued the conversation, which involved chatting about "hooking up".
When officers visited Isles' address in Whiston, near Cheadle, Staffordshire, on 10 February, a large quantity of items were seized, including more than 90,000 images and videos on different devices.
He also had voyeuristic images in a folder called "Spycam", featuring him and a woman he had filmed without her knowledge or consent.
Also on his devices were a "paedophile manual" with instructions on how to abuse children and images that had been distributed on at least three different platforms.
'Plainly disgusting'
Mr Gray said a "high volume" of images were found, including 1,978 of the most serious category A images, 1,317 category B images, 2,134 category C images and 459 prohibited images of children, with many more that had not been categorised.
In police interview, Isles admitted having an "addiction to sex, pornography and child abuse material and an addiction to collecting child sex abuse images" over the space of five years, Mr Gray said.
That is roughly 50 images per day for 5 years. It's a wonder he had time to be a doctor.
Defence barrister Phil Bradley KC said Isles had made efforts to address his behaviour.
"His career is in tatters, he simply cannot go back. The impact of his offending is felt by his family and friends who continue to support him," Mr Bradley said.
"Some of the material was plainly disgusting, there is no getting behind that. Real children and real people were involved and concerned."
Judge McConaghy said Isles, who waved at a woman in the public gallery as he was sent down, must serve half of his sentence in custody before he could be released on licence.
A sexual harm prevention order without limit of time was also imposed.
The University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) said in February that it was fully co-operating with the police in their investigation and has since confirmed that Isles was no longer one of its employees.
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