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Warped paedophile Richard Huckle dreamed of marrying one of his victims so he could abuse a "cycle of children" that came through his home, the Old Bailey heard.

Depraved Huckle, 30, claimed he was "pretty desperate to get married" and wanted his "family to be like foster carers for children."

The former grammar schoolboy made the sickening confession on a notorious paedophile website, where he shared graphic images and videos with an international network of perverts online.

As part of a sick post on a forum headed 'moving into meatspace' he said marriage "certainly is not suitable for a paedo to a Western women" but claimed there are "some women you would be safe with but they would be extremely unattractive."

He then added: "But you can get away with a lot more if you live in and marry a south Asian girl."

The distressing details have emerged after Huckle admitted to an unprecedented 71 charges relating to the horrific abuse of children in Malaysia.

The court heard his plan was to marry a child he had abused since the age of seven, who was one of four victims from the same family.

He claimed the children's relatives disapproved of his behaviour but turned a blind eye because he may be of some help to them in the future.

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Huckle said he was "pretty desperate to get married" despite only being in his 20s.

"My ambition once married would be for our family to be like foster carers for children, temporarily or long term," he wrote in a post from March 2013.

"Though I would like to have my own kids, maybe one or two, I'm not a big fan of incest.

"I would like a cycle of children to come through my house.

"It would depend on the child's character how far I would take things with them (I would never push a child out of their comfort zone)."

He also said he hoped to "pacify and influence" his future wife, saying he would remind her she would lose her "'middle class lifestyle' if I got busted."

The comments emerged as prosecutor Brian O'Neill QC told the judge of a report by a psychiatrist who studied Huckle's warped mind.

"Mr Huckle spoke of wanting to put all this madness behind me and repeatedly attributed his offending to external influences," said the prosecutor.

"He spoke of wanting to establish a life for himself when he would seek out a south Indian woman."

But Mr O'Neill told the judge: "We invite you to read that...in the context of that online post and how his desire to get married to a south Asian woman was to enable him to continue to molest children."

Huckle faces up to 22 life sentences at the Old Bailey after admitting to an unprecedented 71 charges, including rape, sexual assault, and sexual activity with a child.

He was caught with more than 20,000 images of horrific child sex abuse when he was arrested in December 2014, ending the nine-year campaign that claimed up to 200 south-east Asian victims.

Judge Peter Rook QC compared the case to that of shamed Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for sexually assaulting a baby.

Although he agreed with the prosecutor it was a more serious case, the judge indicated he would not be considering a full life term.

Earlier today Huckle's sickening videos were played in court.

Police trawled hours of footage using an expert to identify him from his hands, forearms, thighs and privates.

The clips were played so Judge Peter Rook QC can decide on the seriousness of the 71 counts Huckle has pleaded guilty to.

The screens were not visible to anyone in the public gallery and reporters were warned they would be committing a criminal offence if they caught a glimpse.

But a screen was taped to the bullet-proof glass dock, allowing Huckle to leer at the imagery during his sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey.

The hearing continues tomorrow and Huckle is expected to be sentenced on Monday.

Huckle's full message on the sickening paedophile forum

Writing under a forum titled "moving into meatspace" he wrote: "To tell my story in brief, I'm originally from 'the West' and was when I first visited south Asia I fell in love with the place, one of the many reasons being that the kids are adorable and with families being so easy to get along with.

"I can visit and spend some time with them and I can easily play along and do what you want (within limits of course) with their kids.

"I have spent at least half of the past several years in south Asia and I have got particularly close with one family whom I have known about six years.

"I have had sexual contact with four of the girls in that family and although 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 the future."

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"Now the girls are growing up, I have gone through the weird transition of (at least two of the girls) from them being 'my kids' to being my partners and I have expressed an interest in marrying one girl whom I have a very close relationship with when she's 18, which has met approval from some of the family members except the uncle that's currently caring for her.

"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 he young mind to mould her into the perfect wife.

"She strongly disapproves of me having sex with her and her family members but she loves me as she knows my worth, though she doesn't approve of marriage just yet as I think her uncle is badly influencing her.

"My ambition once married would be for our family to be like foster carers for our children, temporary or long term.

"Though I would like children of my own, only one or two, I'm not a big fan of incest.



"So even though it's very risky, I would 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 with them (I would never push a child out of their comfort zone).



"With having such a long standing no relationship with my wife and being over ten years older than her, I would hope I would be able to pacify and influence her as I would make it clear to her that she would lose her 'middle class lifestyle' if I got busted.

"Marriage certainly is not suitable for a paedo to a Western women (there are some women you would be safe with but they would be extremely unattractive) but you can get away with a lot more if you live in and marry a south Asian girl.

"But I would rather have complete control over children at any time of any day than just visiting kids on the weekend and getting lucky if I'm allowed to take them out for the day and having every cuddle with a girl regulated and usually disapproved.

"I'm sure my life will be better in the future but I still got a long wait to go."