{"id":12030,"date":"2013-11-27T11:52:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T11:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12030"},"modified":"2013-11-27T11:52:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T11:52:55","slug":"paedophile-rock-singer-pleads-guilty-to-baby-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12030","title":{"rendered":"Paedophile rock singer pleads guilty to baby rape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ian Watkins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A\u00a0“determined and committed”\u00a0British\u00a0paedophile, the rock singer Ian Watkins pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the attempted rape of a baby, along with a number of other sex offences.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old, who had previously denied the allegations, made a series of admissions in a last-minute change of plea ahead of what would have been his trial at Cardiff Crown Court.<\/p>\n

Other offences included making child pornography.<\/p>\n

The prosecution described Watkins as a “determined and committed paedophile”.<\/p>\n

Watkins was originally charged with rape, according to the Telegraph on Tuesday, but at the time he “insisted sex with the child did not take place during a drug-fuelled binge he says he was on at the time”.\u200b<\/p>\n

The report details how “prosecuting QC Chris Clee gave details of a plot to turn babies into subservient sex slaves using hard drugs”.<\/p>\n

Clee shared the court a series of text and online messages “between Watkins and two female co-defendants”.<\/p>\n

According to the Telegraph, Watkins and Woman A “spoke of plans to blow crystal-meth smoke into the child’s face at a secret meet up in a Cardiff hotel”.<\/p>\n

“And on March 23,” said the report, “Watkins sent the woman a message saying he wanted a ‘summer of filthy child porn’ and how he wanted to take things ‘to the next level’.<\/p>\n

“Mr Clee also gave details of a sickening 17-minute video involving Watkins and Woman A. Mr Clee said camcorder footage was shot in a London hotel room, which showed Watkins perform a sex act on the child.”<\/p>\n

Sentencing will take place on December 18.<\/p>\n

Watkins’s top-selling band \u00a0the Lostprophets\u00a0burst onto the music scene in 2000, enjoying substantial success, but has since split up. \u2013 Sapa-DPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0“determined and committed”\u00a0British\u00a0paedophile, the rock singer Ian Watkins pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the attempted rape of a baby, along with a number of other sex offences. The 36-year-old, who had previously denied the allegations, made a series of admissions in a last-minute change of plea ahead of what would have been his trial at … Continue reading “Paedophile rock singer pleads guilty to baby rape”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[7619,374,7621,7620,7622],"class_list":["post-12030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-british-paedophile","tag-child-rape","tag-filthy-child-porn","tag-ian-watkins","tag-lostprophets"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/watkins.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12032,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions\/12032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}