Huckle Wanted a Continuous Supply of Children to Abuse

Free Malaysia Today
June 3, 2016

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British paedophile Richard Huckle had wanted to “marry” one of the children he was abusing and set up a foster care service, so he would have a steady stream of children under his care to abuse, UK’s Daily Mail reported.

This is one of the sordid details that emerged during the 30-year-old’s ongoing trial.

He had posted on a paedophile website, where he also shared graphic images and videos: “My ambition once married would be for our family to be like foster carers for children, temporarily or long term… I would like a cycle of children to come through my house.”

Huckle’s parents had also asked the police to take him away while he was at their house in Ashford, Kent, under strict bail conditions, before he was charged with his horrific crimes.

He had confessed to his mother Christina about having had sexual activity with children aged between three and 13, which severely upset and angered her.

Huckle was caught with more than 20,000 images of child sex abuse but released on bail while officers unraveled his sex attacks on an estimated 200 young children. He admitted to 71 of the 91 charges of abusing 23 girls and boys, between 2006 and 2014, when he had posed as an English teacher and Christian philanthropist.

Out of the 23, 22 victims were Malaysian children from impoverished Christian communities. He posted pictures and videos of his abuses to the dark web – an encrypted version of the Internet often used for illegal activity.

He was eventually arrested in December 2014 at the Gatwick airport in UK. He faces up to 22 life sentences.

Meanwhile, The Malay Mail Online reported a pastor of a Petaling Jaya church denying that Huckle had abused any children in its congregation.

Senior Pastor Paul Packianathan of the Community of Praise Petaling Jaya Church in Taman Medan, acknowledged that Huckle had visited the church several times but denied any abuse taking place.

“Those children supposedly affected by him are not from our church, or from the community where our church is. He just came as a parishioner on and off,” he was quoted saying.

Pakianathan added that he had also “told off” Huckle a few times as the latter “would go missing for a long time.”

He declined to elaborate.