Sex offender encouraged father to abuse infant daughter, court told

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Deprived of access to a young girl he had sexually violated for a year, a now-convicted sex offender set his sights on an infant girl and the father he encouraged to abuse her, a judge was told Wednesday.

Prosecutors are seeking a 25 year prison sentence for the 31-year-old offender, convicted of sexual interference and making and distributing child pornography. His now eight-year-old victim was the daughter of his then-girlfriend, who has admitted to also abusing the girl.

Court heard the offender last saw his girlfriend’s daughter, who was in the custody of her biological father, in October 2016, after which he began communicating online with another now-arrested child abuser.

The offender shared pictures of his girlfriend abusing her daughter and encouraged the other man, identified in court as Mr. D, to abuse his own six-month old daughter, suggesting he should “teach (her) to be pervy.”

In a later exchange, the offender posed as his girlfriend, telling Mr. D: “most girls play sexually with their dads.”

“I never really considered that,” Mr. D responded.

Later, when the man admits abusing his daughter, the offender tells him he’s “lucky” and “this is a good start.”

In another exchange, the two men joke about forming a “babysitting club” to facilitate the abuse of children.

Court heard the offender requested the man abuse his daughter and send him a picture, which he did, six days later.

“Exactly as requested… on-demand,” Crown attorney Carolyn Reimer told Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Herbert Rempel. “He is involved… he is personalizing requests and getting them from Mr. D.”

“It’s just so despicable to hear him encourage and order up his made-to-order child pornography that is clearly going to traumatize this child throughout her lifetime,” Reimer said.

Court heard the two men made plans to meet, but the offender was arrested before that could happen. Police later arrested Mr. D after discovering the online communications.

Police arrested the offender and his girlfriend after the woman’s brother reported finding child pornography on an electronic device she had accessed.

A subsequent police investigation uncovered images of the couple abusing the girl on the man’s cellphones, Facebook and text chats discussing the sexual abuse of children and evidence the man had shared abuse images via a peer-to-peer social media app.

dean.pritchard@freepress.mb.ca