12 YEARS JAIL FOR BABY-SIT PERVERT

Owen Baxter, 23, who gained the trust of parents through the church, baby-sat the youngsters so he could photograph himself abusing them before posting images online.

Baxter, of Redland, Bristol, had pleaded guilty to 23 charges at the city’s Crown Court, including making more than 8,000 indecent photographs and videos of children and distributing 3,000 images and videos of children via the internet.

He also admitted sexually assaulting and taking indecent images of four boys aged between four and 12.

Parents had wept in the public gallery when the list of charges was first read out.

Outside court, the mother of one abused boy said that she had been “taken in” by Baxter.

“Owen befriended us in order to get to our son, and it doesn’t get much worse than that.”