An Essex man, the Ilford Paedophile Cesar Cordero Conejo, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for making payments to live stream and orchestrate the sexual assault of children. Cesar Cordero Conejo, 39, from Ilford, is a “dangerous predator” whose actions resulted in the sexual assault of many children in the Philippines by ladies acquainted with Conejo for his personal enjoyment.
British paedophile Cesar Cordero Conejo was scrutinised by National Crime Agency officials after being recognised by overseas law enforcement organisations as a UK-based perpetrator acquiring child sexual abuse material and livestreamed child sexual assault from a Filipino woman.
Data pertaining to Cesar Cordero Conejo, spanning from September 2022 to February 2023, was transmitted to the UK. This encompassed several message exchanges between him and the woman, which were supplied by Homeland Security in the United States.
In one message, she told Cesar Cordero Conejo that she is giving birth but doesn’t have money to go to hospital, to which he replies: “well good luck ok, hope you have another girl.” Later in the chat he asked her to get the children to carry out sex acts on each other. In further messages, Conejo indicated that he wanted to travel to the Philippines to rape one of the children himself, saying that he’d pay the woman 100 dollars a day in return.
NCA investigators arrested Cesar Cordero Conejo in July 2023 and conducted searches of his home, seizing a number of devices, including a laptop and phone. Forensic examination of the devices revealed they contained in excess of 12,500 indecent images of children, including 4,706 in the most severe category A.
Further chat records between him and various Filipino women dating back six years were also identified. One message stated: “Do you have PayPal darling. I wanted to see your daughter today.”
Financial enquiries showed that he had sent a number of Filipino women a total of £1,300 over the course of six years. At least sixteen of these payments were linked to one woman who abused children known to her, for financial gain. A number of child victims were rescued and safeguarded in the Philippines, including three in relation to this case.
These three children would have been aged between five and thirteen at the time of the offending. The imagery obtained from the Filipino woman included category A images (the most severe) involving penetration with a number of objects, and oral rape. The youngest rape victim was only 2-3 years old and was directed to perform sexual acts with others.
In custody, Cesar Cordero Conejo was charged with causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child under the age of 13. Cesar Cordero Conejo was later charged with further counts of causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child, offences relating to making indecent images of children, possessing indecent images of children and possessing an extreme pornographic image.
Cesar Cordero Conejo pleaded guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 4 January and was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment at the same court today (17 October). He will also become a Registered Sex Offender for life and was given a 20-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
NCA Operations Manager Jen Cruickshank said: “This was a horrific case which is shocking on so many levels. Not only did Cesar Cordero Conejo orchestrate the most depraved abuse imaginable on vulnerable children, purely for his own sexual pleasure, he displayed his intentions to travel to the Philippines to carry out these attacks personally.
“He is a dangerous, high harm offender who posed a significant risk to children. The fact they were on the other side of the world probably hadn’t escaped his attention, and no doubt made him think he’d avoid detection. However, the NCA has the capabilities and international reach to ensure that offenders like Cesar Cordero Conejo don’t escape justice.”
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