Teen paedo, 17, filmed himself raping 18-month-old baby and stalked and sexually assaulted a schoolgirl, 11, in an alley
A TEENAGE paedophile has been jailed after he filmed himself raping an 18-month-old baby just weeks before sexually assaulting a schoolgirl.
Callum Scott, 17, was turned in to police by his own grandmother after she recognised him from a CCTV image.
A court heard that he persistently sexually abused the baby and videoed himself doing it.
He then stalked and groped an 11-year-old girl in an alleyway while she was on her way home one afternoon.
Scott grabbed his victim from behind and covered her mouth to muffle her screams for help.
The attack, in Letchworth, Herts, in November 2019, sparked an investigation prompting police to issue a CCTV image of Scott.
It was his own grandmother who recognised him from the photo and handed him in.
Officers seized his laptop and found a horde of child sexual abuse images and videos - including evidence of a series of horrific sexual assaults on a baby.
The abuse began in 2018 and continued until his arrest late last year.
The schoolgirl has been left traumatised and is too afraid to walk to school on her own.
She often wakes in the middle of the night crying and feels unable to tell her friends what happened, the court heard.
Scott was not named during his trial due to his age, but his identity was revealed following a successful challenge by .
He pleaded guilty to 15 offences and was jailed for eight-and-a-half years.
Judge Philip Grey at St Albans Crown Court said: “These children's self-esteem is likely to be affected life-long by knowing that images of them being treated in this way have been distributed over the internet for any number of people to use for their sexual pleasure.”
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The judge added while addressing Scott: “You have changed her life forever at a particularly formative age.
“It must be terribly hard for her, trying to portray an outwardly normal disposition to her peers while dealing with all of this without the release of confiding in at least some of her closer friends.”
DC David Milbourn, who worked on the case, said: “There is no doubt that he is extremely dangerous to children.
“The prison sentence he received demonstrates not only the seriousness of the case but will further prevent the exploitation of innocent children.”
