Rhyl.North Wales - Kinmel Bay man jailed for making Far East sex films with young boys

Published date: 21 March 2016 | 

Published by: Staff reporter
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A MAN who directed his own sex films from his Kinmel Bay home after paying children abroad to engage in sex acts has been jailed for six years.

Loner Lee Roberts, aged 32, told boys as young as 11 in the Philippines what to do in highly sexualised chats over the internet and filmed what they were doing to each other and with older men.

Some of the films were distributed by him, Mold Crown Court was told.

Roberts, of Windsor Drive, trembled in the dock as he was jailed for six years after he admitted two charges of inciting a child to engage in penetrative sex acts.

He had previously admitted other charges of incitement, possessing and making indecent images and films, and distributing two of them, at the local magistrates’ court and had beensent to the crown court for sentence.

Roberts was ordered to register for life as a sex offender and a seven year sexual harm prevention order was made to curb his future activities.

Prosecuting barrister Sion ap Mihangel explained how through another operation it had been discovered back in 2012 that young males in The Philippines were being exploited by people from the UK who paid them modest amounts of money to engage in sexual acts over the Internet and Roberts was found to be one of the men paying for such activities.

The judge, Mr Recorder Jeremy Jenkins, said Roberts had over a protected period of time been “corrupting young people” in another part of the world via the Internet.

In November 2014 computer equipment seized revealed he had been sending money, and holding explicit sexual conversations with children inviting them to engage in sexual activity.

Other illegal material which he had downloaded off the Internet including 108 indecent photos and 58 videos at the worst category A, 462 photos and 82 videos at category B and 1,860 photos and 12 videos at category C. Some of the category A and B movies had been distributed.

Interviewed, he said that he was a lonely individual who had done “some stupid things”.

He said he sent £20 to young boys to engage in sexual acts with each other and with adult males and recorded some of them, although he claimed that the penetrative acts had been simulated.

But he had stopped doing it before his arrest because he knew it was wrong and illegal.

Defending barrister Simon Rogers said that people who knew him had written character references in which he was described as sociable, reliable, and trustworthy and they were shocked when the matters came to light.

He was remorseful, realised that it was wrong but took full responsibility for what he had done.

When his offending came to light he had lost his employment and he knew it would be extremely difficult for him to secure employment on his release from prison.

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