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Family members of the young victims of Danyiel James Walker solemnly filed out of the courtroom Friday as the disturbing details of his sex crimes were read into the record following his guilty plea to 44 charges.

Walker, 41, appeared emotionless in the prisoner’s dock, reading along with facts of the case, now bearded with his hair grown long and looking much different from images circulated when he was first arrested in January, when police feared — correctly — that he had abused more victims.

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He said little, telling Ontario Court Justice David Berg only that he understood the consequences of his plea and that he had made the plea “of my own free will.”

After the numerous charges were read into the record — an exercise that took 25 minutes — Walker said only one word: “Guilty.”

The plea entered Friday covered more than a decade of sexual abuse with multiple young boys, beginning when some were 8 years old and continuing for years through a pattern of grooming.