Evil baby intercourse offender with 152 victims dubbed ‘each mum or dad’s worst nightmare’
Siah Riley, 36, of Normanton, Derby, used Snapchat to blackmail young girls into sending him explicit videos and images, posing as a teenage boy or girl to exploit 152 child victims
Siah Riley was convicted at Derby Crown Court(Image: Derby Telegraph)
A “depraved” Derby sex offender and blackmailer, who carried out a shocking catalogue of horrific crimes against 152 young victims, has been described by a judge as “every parent’s worst nightmare”.
Judge Shaun Smith KC told convicted rapist Siah Riley he had never encountered such a prolific criminal of his type in 46 years working in the legal profession. The 36-year-old defendant masqueraded as teenagers by establishing bogus profiles on social media and enticed girls as young as nine into transmitting sexual videos and images to him.
When some of them ceased complying with his demands, the Normanton paedophile threatened to distribute to the online world what they had already provided him, if they refused to send him more.
And when police apprehended the twisted offender they uncovered how he had systematically organised the films and photographs into folders according to the names of the girls he’d manipulated, reports Derbyshire Live.
Imposing a 31-year prison sentence, Judge Smith said: “This was depraved. The extent of your obsession with online pornography involving young girls is truly breathtaking.
“You have no moral compass. You are every parent’s worst nightmare. In my 46 years in this profession, I have never encountered a case with so many offences and so many victims. In one video you told a girl to choke herself so she knew you were in charge.”
Leanne Summers, prosecuting, said the offending occurred over a two-year-and-eight-month-long period between 2021 and 2023. She said: “This case is about the defendant’s prolific use of Snapchat to incite children aged nine to 16 to share with him sexual images and videos.
“The total number of victims is 152. He used two Snapchat accounts. One was under the name Josh King in which he pretended to be a teenage boy and another under the name Kim in which he posed as a teenage girl.
“On each occasion he used Snapchat accounts to request images of a sexual nature. His attitude towards them often changed when they became reluctant and he blackmailed 24 victims saying he would share their images online if they did not carry on sending them.
“His method was to use one device to chat to the victims and another device to record what was sent to him. He then moved them to a laptop, storing them there under the names of the victims.
“It is clear they do not know he was using a separate device to record them. When police seized his devices, there were also indecent images of children, including 1,831 images of his victims, which he retained for his own sexual pleasure.”
Miss Summers detailed numerous examples of the videos and images that the young girls sent to Riley. Among them was one 13-year-old girl who called the defendant “Master” and apologised for “not doing better” for him.
He subsequently blackmailed her, threatening that if she failed to continue sending the videos, he would post them to TikTok, Facebook, pornography sites, the dark web and “everywhere he could”.
The prosecutor revealed that when another blackmail victim informed him she was only 10 years old, he responded: “I don’t care, you are hot.” He also told a third victim that he “hoped her parents would see” the images he was threatening to post on Facebook.
Miss Summers read out several victim impact statements in which the young girls expressed how their personalities had been “destroyed” and how they feel they have “betrayed themselves”.
One mother’s statement read: “My family will never forgive and forget what you have done because every time I see the scars on my daughter’s arms it makes me hate you a little more.”
Riley, of Walbrook Road, admitted to multiple counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in penetrative sexual activity; causing or inciting a child to engage in non-penetrative sexual activity; causing or inciting a child under the age of 16 to engage in penetrative sexual activity; causing or inciting a child under the age of 16 to engage in non-penetrative sexual activity; engaging in sexual communication with a child; causing or inciting a child to engage in prostitution or pornography and 23 counts of blackmail.
His past convictions include one for rape from 2012, where he was imprisoned for six and a half years.
Steve Gosnell, defending, said his client had pleaded guilty to the multitude of charges at the earliest opportunity. He stated: “He does regret this and he does apologise. He knows he will receive a term of incarceration of many years.”
In addition to the lengthy prison sentence, the judge imposed a lifetime sexual harm prevention order on Riley and placed him on the sex offender register for life.
The 31-year term comprises 25 years behind bars plus a six-year extended licence period.
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