Monster who raped kids as young as 3, volunteered in orphanages and awarded himself points for offences

A PAEDOPHILE dubbed Britain’s worst ever is facing 22 life sentences after abusing up to 200 child victims.

Richard Huckle, 30, filmed himself abusing babies and raping children as young as three then shared them on the dark web.

Evil Huckle, from Asford Kent, volunteered in orphanages in Asia to gain access to vulnerable kids who he abused and then bragged about online.

He even wrote a 60 page instruction manual for other perverts called Paedophiles & Poverty: Child Lover Guide, which he shared in twisted chatrooms.

He treated his sick crimes like a game by awarding himself ‘paedo-points’ for how vile the offences were, it was revealed today.

He targeted an impoverished Christian community in Malaysia where he posed as a student, photographer, English teacher and philanthropist to groom his victims.

Huckle boasted online that it was easier to abuse poor Asian children over wealthier Western kids.

The New Hope orphanage even posted a tribute to his work on Facebook, unaware that he was a dangerous predator.

After filming himself abusing children, the freelance photographer sold the sordid videos on the dark web for Bitcoins.

Police got intelligence of his overseas crimes and arrested him at Gatwick Airport on 19 December 2014 when he returned to the county for Christmas.

Officers found 20,253 indecent images of children on his laptop and hard drives, many of them showing Huckle abusing children.

Using laws that allows British citizens to be charged with crimes committed abroad, the National Crime Agency charged him with 91 counts.

He today pleaded guilty, to 71 offences involving 23 children aged from three months to 12 years old in Malaysia and Cambodia.

The remaining offences will rest on file and it is thought in reality he abused up to 200 kids.
The case is so vast that it will take judges three days to sentence him.

It can only now be reported because the case was hidden by court orders designed to keep his child victims safe from other predators.

Practising Christian Huckle first visited Malaysia on a teaching gap year when he was 18 and went on to groom children while doing voluntary work.

Huckle had brazenly discussed his crimes on a chat room with other paedos.

He wrote: “If I were to transfer my skills learned from India and tried to use them in the West, I wouldn’t last a month before I found myself in a cell.

“My freedom relies on the hush mentality of the locals on this kind of thing.

“If India becomes ‘liberated’ and I become professionally successful, maybe I could be facing the same wrath in 20-40 years.”

In another instance, too upsetting to report, he describes abusing a five year old on her birthday and said: “she wasn’t most pleased.”

He bragged about not being caught and said: “It will likely take something very serious to get me to stop or slow down, but if I’m not suffering consequences what is there for me to learn from?”

Huckle dreamt of making a living from his crimes and planned to sell his stash of twisted child porn.

He even bragged that a three-year-old girl victim had become as loyal to him as a dog.

Senior officer James Traynor said: “Richard Huckle groomed those children.

“He groomed them to a point that he was certain no matter what he did to them they would not tell their parents about the abuse they were suffering from him.

“Richard Huckle is a predatory paedophile. He based his whole life around the sexual abuse of children, around the grooming of adults in order to gain access to their children.

“As a result of the guilty pleas, Richard Huckle faces a long time behind bars, and as a result we have safeguarded many more children that he would have abused during his lifetime.”

He was described as “a lone offender”, although investigators also said their inquiry is “ongoing”.

Officers believe there are even more victims who suffered at his hands in south-east Asia.

Deputy head of operations Detective Superintendent Matthew Long said: “He was extremely good at grooming. He would use any opportunity that he had to influence and cajole, to manipulate people into a position that he was given access to children.

“He was doing it all the time, he was a constant groomer.”

He added: “He was one of the most committed, manipulative, conniving paedophiles we’ve come across.

“He’s been so committed he’s been using a variety of grooming methods, there’s no point that he would stop.”

There is currently no evidence currently that Huckle abused UK kids, but cops have not ruled it out.

Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) head of operations Tony Cook said: “We have investigated the offences we have got evidence and intelligence against.

“If we had evidence to suggest he committed offences in the UK we would investigate that, but I don’t think we have, that’s not to say he hasn’t committed offences in the UK.

“He is only 30 years of age, so we can only imagine what sort of offending he had in front of him.”

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