Having perpetrated “shockingly depraved” sexual assault, including the rape of a girl, a female child molester, Vicki Bevan, the St Helens Paedophile, has been imprisoned for life.
With two males, Paul Rafferty and Tony Hutton, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) reported Vicki Bevan “instigated and organised” the abuse of the female victim – aged under 10.
Vicki Bevan’s phone turned up images of the violence, including the rape, which the trio from St Helens in Merseyside shared.
The CPS said Vicki Bevan also distributed the pictures more broadly on the Kik Messenger network and started discussions with the two men on the “sexual abuse, rape and torture of the child”.
One of the males once asked her whether she had any limits. She responded, “No, none at all…”
Over two years, the mistreatment surfaced when another man was arrested on suspicion of having inappropriate pictures of children.
His phone was investigated, and pictures of Vicki Bevan’s mistreatment surfaced.
Police also obtained a video showing the 37-year-old female paedophile sexually mistreating the youngster.
Prosecutors declared the “level of depravity… shocked the CPS team that worked on the case”.
‘shockingly terrible filthy dreams… performed in real life.’
Admitting 34 sexual assaults and having been observed laughing in the dock at a previous hearing, Vicki Bevan was sentenced to life term with a minimum period of 10 years at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday. [Editor’s Note – For anyone confused, we do not have whole life sentences in the UK or anywhere near so she has got a life sentence which is the same as getting 10 years. The judge could easily have given 15 years minimum]
After pleading guilty to nine sexual offences, including the rape of the girl, Paul Rafferty, aged 62, was imprisoned for ten years with four years extended licence.
Admitting four sexual offences, including the child’s sexual assault, Hutton, 42, was sentenced to four years in jail.
Delivering his sentences, Judge Andrew Menary QC said the scale of depravity in the case “beggars belief” and it was likely the victim would suffer “severe psychological harm”.
At a previous hearing, the judge said, “Just when you think you have heard the worst, another one comes along”.
He added: “Of particular concern to the court is that there are exchanges of messages which are shockingly depraved fantasies.
“And they did not remain as fantasies; some were played out in real life.”
‘Extremely disturbing crimes’
When officers raided Vicki Bevan’s home address, laptops and a mobile phone were found with several indecent images of children that had been shared with Hutton and Rafferty, Merseyside Police said.
After Vicki Bevan was arrested in October last year, she pleaded guilty to 34 offences in January including:
- Rape
- Two counts of sexual assault
- Four counts of sexual assault by penetration
- One count of attempted sexual assault by penetration
- Inciting a child to engage in sexual activity
- Three counts of sexual activity with a child
- 17 counts of making indecent images of children
- Three counts of distributing indecent photographs of a child
- Two counts of possessing extreme pornography
Rafferty had some past offences but none pertaining to child sexual assault; Vicki Bevan and Hutton both had no past convictions.
Senior Crown prosecutor Pauline Newrick claimed it was “one of the worst cases” she had ever worked on.
“If (Vicki Bevan) had not been caught, no doubt she would have continued arranging for this young girl and potentially others to be abused by herself and men most horrendously,” Ms Newrick added.
Detective Chief Inspector Allison Woods said: “These extremely disturbing crimes committed by Bevan, Rafferty and Hutton have caused great psychological and physical harm to their victims and destroyed lives.
“They repeatedly subjected them to deplorable offences, and we welcome the lengthy sentences the court gave today.”
Before the sentencing, Judge Menary said any “blame sharing” claim by Vicki Bevan in her defence, that she was “led on” by the others, would not be accepted.
At a previous hearing in March, Bevan laughed and smiled with the prison officers in the dock before wiping away tears with a white tissue when the judge came into court.
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