July 2007
Jailed for life for raping baby
A PREDATORY paedophile who horrifically raped a two-year-old Kirkby baby and groomed a vulnerable 13-year-old girl has been jailed for life.
Sex fiend Simon Webb (22) was ordered to serve a minimum 10-year tariff for the shocking attack at Nottingham Crown Court on Friday.
Twenty-two-year-old Webb, who sat emotionless throughout the sentencing, raped the baby on 8th March this year –– just months after meeting her mother on an internet chatroom.
The brutal force of his attack resulted in the baby, who cannot be named for legal reasons, needing stitches.
Before Webb was led away to the cells to begin his sentence, Judge Michael Stokes branded him as one of the sickest paedophiles he had ever come across.
“You need to be taken out of circulation for a very long time,” he told Webb. “You will not be released until it is safe for you to be released. If it means you are still in prison in your middle age then so be it.
“Sitting here in my job I am used to dealing with perverted people, but you are something else.”
The judge made his hard-hitting comments after hearing how Webb carried out his sickening attack on the baby following a night out with her and two of her friends.
Prosecutor Julie Warburton told the 90-minute hearing how the party returned to the mother’s Kirkby home for further drinks before she left Webb alone for half-an-hour with her baby while she took her friends home.
Said Ms Warburton: “Webb had been drinking heavily, he consumed vodka, three pints of lager and other drinks.
“He continued to drink when they returned home. Shortly after 10pm the mum took her friends home and left her daughter with Webb.
“She was gone for just 30 minutes, but when she returned she found the defendant on the doorstep in an anxious state
“When she checked on her daughter she saw her nappy had been removed, she was naked and bleeding heavily.
The child was then taken to King’s Mill Hospital for medical attention and surgery.
Webb, of Central Avenue, South Normanton, was eventually snared by blood stains found on his boxer shorts –– but while on bail for the offence he also abused a 13-year-old girl after grooming her on the internet
Added Ms Warburton: “She was 13 and very naive. He told her he loved her and she fell for his advances as you would expect a girl of that age to do.
“He knew she was 13, but he continued to send her sexually explicit texts and groom her in chatrooms.”
The court was told that on 6th April he met the girl on a park bench in South Normanton, he then fuelled her with alcohol and persuaded her to engage in sexual activity in nearby woodland.
He continued to have sex with her on 6th and 7th April until his home was raided by police.
In sentencing him to life behind bars, Judge Stokes told Webb he posed a very serious and very real threat to females of all ages.
“How anyone can even consider what you did to this innocent child is beyond understanding. When you were supposed to be looking after her you abused her,” he said.
“She bled heavily and was screaming in pain because of your actions. This shows there are no limits for the categories of wickedness.
“You also engaged in sex with a 13-year-old girl. You knew this was illegal, but did not care. You are unable to control your sexual appetite and you pose a very serious and very real threat to females of all ages.
Webb was also placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register and banned for life from working with children.
