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Editor’s name: This story contains graphic details from Monday’s court proceedings.

His online nickname was “Steps,” like the bus steps his victims had to walk up every day he picked them up for school.

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Monday morning, a London courtroom heard how Steps, the dark-haired man wearing a black T-shirt in the prisoner’s box, had committed some of the most depraved crimes ever described there.

The kids on the bus didn’t know they shouldn’t have accepted treats or hand lotion from the man entrusted with their safe trips to and from school.

They didn’t know he had laced the food with his own semen or that the cellphone videos he took of them eating the treats would be uploaded onto the dark web, on a child porn message board.

Steps is 30. He’s non-descript with dark hair. His father was in the courtroom to support him.

The only word Steps uttered was “guilty” after his defence lawyer waived the reading of his 23 charges that included three counts of voyeurism, one count of possessing child pornography, one count of distributing child pornography and 18 counts of making child pornography.