A paedophile who contacted 11,000 children across the world as well as filming young girls getting changed at his local swimming pool in Rochdale, has been jailed for ten years.
Dean Farrar, 50, of Rochdale, was caught with 19 videos on his phone captured at Oulder Hill Leisure Centre, on Hudsons Walk, between November 2012 and September 2014.
Police also found 11,000 conversations with children across fake social medias accounts where he pretended to be a teenage boy, called Dean Smythe. These included Skype, KIK, Xava Yak and Oovoo from 2011 to 2014.
One of these instances involved Farrar asking an eight-year-old girl to meet her at KFC, after he pretended to be a 14-year-old boy.
He asked her to send topless pictures and when she finally did, Farrar threatened to send the picture to all of her friends if she didn’t agree to watch him masturbate.
Farrar pleaded guilty to 40 charges including performing sexual acts while children watched him live, engaging in sexually explicit chat ,encouraging children to send indecent images of themselves, having 1,432 indecent images of children and extreme pornography, having 30 images and videos involving adults and animals, distributing indecent images of children, recording young girls at Oulder Hill Leisure Centre changing room, and distributing of those videos.
Jonathan Turner, prosecuting, at Minshull Street Crown Court, said: “The examination of the defendant’s phone recovered over 11,000 conversations using various chat applications. There were no normal text conversations, for example with friends or family.
“The majority of these conversations involved the defendant contacting children around the world or sharing images with other offenders.
“His contact list extended to approximately 11,000 individual child contacts across the globe.”
Police were alerted to the man’s extensive illegal activities in October 2014 when a 14-year-old girl was contacted by Farrar, under his fake account. He had asked her to watch him perform a sex act.
The teenager, clearly upset by the request, passed the iPad to her mum who contacted the police.
Officers traced the messages back to Farrar’s home in Rochdale.
Farrar was sentenced on Monday afternoon to 10 years in prison, and will sign the sex offenders register indefinitely.
