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Another member of a child sex abuse ring who live streamed sick videos to a Leamington Spa man has been jailed.

Dean Petley of Leamington Spa met women on adult services websites and then paid them to abuse young children.

He was jailed for 11 years last month.

On Friday (December 6) Christine Callaghan, who who was paid £2,285 by Petley to stream footage of herself sexually abusing a young girl for almost three years, was also locked up.

At an earlier hearing Callaghan, of Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, admitted distributing category A (the most serious) live streamed videos, distributing a category B indecent live streamed video; and two counts of causing or inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity.

Appearing at Isleworth Crown Court she was jailed for six years, given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) caught Callaghan, and Petley, of Leamington Spa , Warwickshire, after investigating Jodie Little, 30, who was jailed for 12 years and four months in August this year for sexually abusing children and streaming the footage online.

In July 2018, the NCA became aware of Little sexually abusing children under the online names ‘Devil B***h 666’ and ‘DomTabooS**t’ on an adult services website from her home in northern Cyprus.

She was returned to the UK and admitted nine offences.

She was convicted of eight of them using Section 72 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 – legislation designed to prosecute British nationals in the UK for crimes committed abroad.

Little’s investigation generates new leads

In October last year the NCA arrested Petley, an automotive engineer, after identifying him as one of Little’s customers. He admitted 11 charges and was jailed last month for eight years.

Online chat found on Little’s devices showed Petley had asked her to perform sex acts in front of young children and that he paid her £750 from January 2017 to February 2018 to see her sexually abuse two victims.

Little, originally from Huddersfield, sent Petley 10 electronic files, one of which showed her sexually abusing a very young girl and talking graphically about the child being raped.

Petley was rearrested in May this year after further evidence - linking him to Christine Callaghan - was found on an encrypted hard drive at his home.

It contained screenshots of conversations with Callaghan over two years and full facial images of her abusing the victim with a small window of Petley watching on.

Callaghan discussed with Petley what she would do for money and he instructed her how to abuse the victim.

The hard drive also contained a video of Callaghan abusing the young girl. Screenshots also showed that on at least 10 different dates over three years, 2016 to 2018, she performed penetrative sexual activity in front of the victim.

National Crime Agency investigation

Matt Hall, NCA operations manager, said: “These were horrendous crimes that Callaghan carried out for money.

“Her and Petley’s prosecutions were possible because of our determination to ensure Jodie Little faced justice.

“Little might have been abroad but distance is not a barrier for the NCA in pursuing UK child sex offenders wherever they are.

“These crimes are an example of what the NCA is seeing more and more, with increasingly worsening cyber-enabled child sexual offending.

“The NCA knows that the scale and severity of offending against children are worsening.

“We and UK police arrest around 500 child sex offenders a month and safeguard about 700 children a month.

“There is no greater priority for us than protecting children.”

If you are concerned a crime has been committed against a child contact your local police.

For advice on child safety visit Thinkuknow.co.uk

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