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Webcam man incited US child abuse | |
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A 19-year-old man from the West Midlands has been jailed for four years and eight months for inciting a mother in the US to abuse her own child. | |
Nicholas Wilde, of Holmbridge Grove, Walsall, was arrested on 11 June 2009 after an investigation by West Midlands Police and US officers in Maine. | Nicholas Wilde, of Holmbridge Grove, Walsall, was arrested on 11 June 2009 after an investigation by West Midlands Police and US officers in Maine. |
Wilde admitted making and distributing indecent images and inciting sexual assault on a child under 13. | |
Wolverhampton Crown Court heard he used a webcam to direct and watch the abuse. | |
Most serious pornography | |
Wilde was caught when he sent images of sexual abuse to a 16-year-old girl who he was chatting to on the internet. | |
The girl reported it to her mother who called police. | |
A memory stick seized at Wilde's home contained footage of a woman in Maine abusing her young child at Wilde's direction. | |
It also contained a collection of photographs at the most serious end of the child pornography scale involving children as young as 18 months old, the court heard. | |
Sentencing him, Judge Hilary Watson said of the exchange with the American woman: "It was entirely for your benefit, at your direction, for the sexual gratification of Nicholas Wilde." | |
Wilde, who has Asperger's syndrome, was ordered to sign the sex offenders register. He will serve his sentence at a young offenders institution. | |
He was banned from working with children for life. |
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