A Toxteth Paedophile retiree, Kenneth McNabb, has been reincarcerated following the revelation of his “secret” after three decades.
Kenneth McNabb, convicted of sexually assaulting three children and regularly found in possession of abhorrent child abuse photographs, reportedly feels “angered” by measures intended to prevent his reoffending, perceiving them as a “infringement on his freedom”.
One of his victims today recounted how the paedophile “subjected him to torment and lacked the courage to acknowledge his actions.”
A judge informed the war veteran that he was “not impressed” by his display of two poppies on his coat, suspected him of trying to gain favour, and remarked that his professed desire for change “rang hollow” because he had rejected “opportunity after opportunity” to achieve it.
On Wednesday, Liverpool Crown Court was informed that the plaintiff was in his early adolescence when he was sexually abused by McNabb on two separate occasions in the 1990s.
The defendant, now 74 years old, perpetrated these acts in the Skelmersdale region by placing the victim’s hand on his own penis and commanding the boy to perform a sexual act on him.
Christopher Taylor, prosecuting, described how his abuser then told him that he was “teaching him how to do it so he could do it himself”.
On the second occasion, Kenneth McNabb, of Arundel Avenue in Toxteth, performed an identical sex act on the complainant and “made a similar comment”, leaving him “feeling sick”.
However, it was “many years before he spoke about the sexual abuse to anyone”. He ultimately disclosed the matter to a police officer in the back of a patrol car, having become “visibly upset” when arrested in relation to a motoring offence.
Kenneth McNabb was previously locked up for five years in 1999 for sexually assaulting two girls. He has since been convicted of offences relating to indecent images of children in 2011, 2014 and 2021, in spite of being subject to lifelong sexual offences protection order.
When visited by police on April 23 last year, he was found to have downloaded a further five category A indecent images, those showing the most serious forms of abuse, on his Toshiba laptop, as well as one three in category B and three in category C.
Kenneth McNabb, who also collected six prohibited computer generated images depicting child abuse and one extreme pornographic image involving a horse, had meanwhile installed virtual private network software on the device in an apparent attempt to disguise his online activities.
Kenneth McNabb appeared in the dock with two enamel poppy badges attached to his long black trench coat, worn over a shirt and tie.
Judge David Swinnerton said of this: “I am tempted to ask why the defendant is wearing poppies on his jacket. It does not impress, if that is what it is meant to do. He is entitled to.”
Walking with the aid of a stick in court, Kenneth McNabb admitted two counts of indecent assault, possession of indecent images of children, three counts of making indecent images, possession of prohibited images of a child, possession of an extreme pornographic image and breaching a sexual offences prevention order.
He was jailed for six-and-a-half years, and remains subject to lifelong notification requirements.
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