Pervert threatened to rape new mums and molest babies in sick Facebook threats

Oscar Crowe had initially denied being sexually attracted to pregnant women, childbirth and young children.

But Swindon Crown Court heard just hours before he was interviewed by police about the vile social media messages he sent, he was on Skype trying to persuade what he thought was a 12-year-old girl to send him nude photographs of herself. The “girl” was an undercover police officer.

The 21-year-old was spared an immediate spell behind bars, with a Swindon judge telling him he needed help.

Crowe was given a 15-month jail sentence suspended for two years. Ordering him to complete the sex offenders’ programme, Judge Jason Taylor QC told Crowe: “As distasteful and as criminal as your behaviour was, both you and the public at large will benefit from your sexual deviancy being addressed.”

Prosecutor David Maunder said the Gorse Hill man had been linked to around 40 social media profiles each in a different name, including Tim Trillon, Paul Blaker and Paulie Tanner. The accounts have since been deleted by Facebook.

He sent explicit messages to six women between April and October last year. The conversations typically started with him typing “Hi x” but would rapidly become explicit.

In some, he spoke of the women’s “sexy pregnant bellies”, told one woman “I love to masturbate to sexy newborn children being born” and referenced his desire to rape some of his victims. He said he wanted to place his genitalia on the women’s children and even named the children of some of his victims.

One woman was living at a mother and baby unit with her seven-month-old daughter when she received messages from Crowe in August last year. Those messages included a claim he wanted to rape her.

He was arrested on February 12 and his phone and laptop were seized. He admitted sending the messages and described them as vile, but denied being aroused by childbirth or finding babies, children or pregnant women attractive.

But just hours before he was arrested Crowe had been chatting on Skype with what he thought was a 12-year-old girl – but was in fact an undercover police officer.

Crowe, using an account under the false name Tim Trillon, asked the youngster how old she was. When she told him she was 12, he replied: “Perfect, I love girls your age.”

He pestered her to send a picture of herself naked, saying he wanted to get her pregnant and have a home birth so he could “lick her belly and masturbate”.

When the baby was born he planned to molest the child, he said, telling her it was “normal for grown-ups”.

Interviewed by detectives, he said he had wanted to call the girl on Skype “in order to put her off”. He claimed to be interested in “normal” adult practices like BDSM and “being called ‘daddy’”.

In victim statements, the women Crowe targeted – mostly former acquaintances or friends of friends – described feeling sickened by the messages he had sent. In some cases he had continued to text them despite being warned they would report him to the police.

Crowe, of Argyle Street, Gorse Hill, pleaded guilty to attempted sexual communication with a child, harassment and four offences under the Malicious Communications Act.

Tony Bignall, mitigating, described his client as deeply troubled. He had been suffering from poor mental health at the time of the offences.

He had no previous convictions on his record and was in employment, telling police he worked at an outdoors shop. He was still a young man.

Judge Taylor lambasted the defendant, who appeared in the dock bearded and dressed in a suit and tie.

He said: “It’s not hard to see or imagine why such unsavoury messages would make the women feel so disgusted, horrified and unsettled, especially when you were so persistent.

“Pregnancy can be a difficult enough time without the unnecessary burden and anxiety you created.”

Crowe was given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order designed to restrict his access to children. He must sign on to the sex offenders’ register for the same length of time.