Train graffiti paedophile gang jailed
Here’s a piece of advice to those of you who see a future in child sexual abuse (which, by the way, I do NOT endorse or recommend as a career choice): advertising is NOT a way to ensure career longevity. Our latest DUMB@$$ AWARD wieners are a tag-team affair, and we can only hope that they’re sharing the same cell. Somehow these maroons deserve each other.
Jeez, you’d think that these people could have put all of this ingenuity to a more productive (and presumably legal) use….
Four paedophiles caught after a local newspaper reporter answered an obscene graffiti advert scrawled on the door of a train toilet door were today given lengthy jail sentences.
Ruth Lumley, 26, noticed graffiti urging girls aged between eight and 13 to text a mobile phone number as she took a train home from work.
Posing as an 11-year-old girl, Ms Lumley - who at the time was working on the Chichester Observer, in West Sussex - replied to the advert and was sent a series of increasingly sexually explicit messages from a pay-as-you-go mobile phone.
She alerted police and prompted a complex 10-month nationwide investigation that uncovered “horrific” child abuse on eight victims.
The inquiry led detectives to Trevor Haddock, 55, Ian Jones, 43, John Farmer, 68, and 43-year-old Derek Moody.
Earlier this month, the four men pleaded guilty to a range of sex offences at Hove crown court. Today, they were sentenced to jail terms ranging from eight years to life.
I’m sorry (well, actually I’m not), but people these monumentally stupid and monstrous deserve to be incarcerated for the rest of their natural lives - hopefully in a place where they will be on the receiving end of much sexual abuse. Perhaps then they’ll begin to understand how truly sick, immoral, and just plain depraved their behavior has been. Though I may make liight of this criminal immorality, it’s only to mask my fury that someone could stoop so low as to deprive a child of their innocence for their own sexual gratification. People like this ought to be fed to the hyenas.
