It is reported that Richard Huckle is facing up to 22 life sentences for the sexual abuse of babies and children aged between six months and 12 years from 2006 to 2014. — File pic

KUALA LUMPUR, June 3 ― British paedophile Richard Huckle dreamt of grooming one of his Asian victims into “the perfect wife” when she turned 18 and continue to abuse “a cycle of children” coming through his home as their foster father, a UK court at his sentencing was told yesterday.

British media reported postings on the dark web penned by the 30-year-old serial child rapist that he was thinking of marrying a South Asian girl he had known since she was 7 and whose three sisters he had also sexually abused so he could carry on with his depraved lifestyle, though Huckle claimed he was “not a big fan of incest”.

At the Old Bailey, prosecutor Brian O’Neill said both the victim and her family knew of the abuse and “obviously doesn’t approve, but they try to work around it as they know I can be a potentially valuable asset to them in the future”.

The comments emerged following a psychiatrist report on Huckle after his arrest, in which the Briton said he wanted to “put all this madness behind me” and, when released from prison, “seek a South Indian woman”.

According to a news report in The Guardian, Huckle wrote of his love of South Asia because “the kids are adorable and their families are easy to get along with” so “you can easily play along and do what you want with their kids, within limits”.

Huckle had visited India at some point during his stint in Asia from 2005 to his capture in December 2014 although he is believed to have spent more time in Malaysia, which is part of southeast Asia.

Another UK paper Daily Mail reported Huckle describing, in one of his postings on the dark web, his abuse of four girls from the same family whom he had known for about six years.

“I have sexual contact with four of the girls in that family and though the family obviously does not approve it they try to work around it as they know I can be a potentially valuable asset to them in future.”

He had even earmarked one of the sisters as his future “perfect wife” once she turned 18, .

“I feel my situation could strongly benefit me in that my partner is still quite young and I have known her since she was seven and I can influence her young mind to mould her into the perfect wife.”

British media reported Huckle sought to perpetuate the vicious cycle of sexual assault on children after marriage by taking on the role of “foster carers”.

“Though I would like my own kids, only one or two, I am not a big fan of incest. So even though it’s very risky I’d like a cycle of children to come through staying at my house, and, depending on the child’s character, would depend how far I would take things (I’d never push a child out of their comfort zone),” The Guardian quoted O’Neill reading aloud to the court.

Huckle boasted that he could influence his young wife “into not reporting me as I would make it clear to her that she would lose her ‘middle class’ lifestyle if I got busted”.

He said that marriage to a “western woman” was not suitable for “a paedo” and “there are some you would be safe with but they would be extremely unattractive”, but, “you could get away with a lot more” if you married a South Asian girl”.

Huckle had made the posting on a forum for child pornography on the so-called darknet, some 18 months before his arrest, which has since been taken down.

The UK media reported Wednesday that Huckle is facing up to 22 life sentences for the sexual abuse of babies and children aged between six months and 12 years from 2006 to 2014.

Huckle, who is believed to have abused up to 200 children, reportedly admitted 71 of 91 charges related to 23 girls and boys that included rape and sexual assault.

Twenty-two children are reportedly from mainly impoverished Christian communities in Kuala Lumpur, where he posed as an English teacher and Christian philanthropist, while one is Cambodian.

News reports also claim that Huckle, whose computer allegedly had over 20,000 indecent images of children, had offered to help teach at schools and churches in Malaysia and was sometimes employed for private tuition in his victims’ homes.

He had been living in Malaysia from 2011 until December 2014 when he was arrested at Gatwick Airport in the UK.