Babysitters jailed for baby rape
Two babysitters have been jailed for raping a 12-week-old baby girl
and taking pictures of the abuse.
Alan Webster, 40, and his girlfriend Tanya French, 19, both from
Hatfield in Hertfordshire, pleaded guilty to rape and making
indecent images.
Webster was given a life sentence at St Albans Crown Court; French
was jailed for five years.
International law enforcers alerted police after Webster downloaded
7,000 indecent images from the internet.
The baby's mother was unaware of the abuse until detectives visited
her home after finding photographs detailing the abuse at Webster's
home.
Sentencing Webster, Judge Findlay Baker said the offences were
committed against the "most vulnerable victim - a little
baby".
"There are no words to express the abhorrence such offending
generates," he added.
'Malign influence'
Sentencing French, he said: "You did not shrink away from the acts
in which you joined, but looked forward to them."
But he said French was also a victim and had come under Webster's
"malign influence" and was to some extent "corrupted by him".
French admitted four charges of rape, five indecent assaults, two
charges of permitting indecent images to be taken of children and
two counts of making indecent images of the child in February and
March 2004.
Webster admitted one charge of rape, four indecent assaults, two
charges of permitting indecent images to be taken of children and
two counts of making indecent images of children.
Webster also admitted a separate charge of indecently assaulting a
14-year-old girl and seven offences of possessing child abuse
images.
*******
Baby
rape?!
This is a sick world. 