'The Devil' who filmed himself raping baby and kept double life as pedophile secret from wife gets 18 years in jail
A recruitment consultant in the UK, who had raped a baby and shared the depraved video with other pedophiles online, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. Barry Hudson-Muscroft, 33, who hails from Prestwich, was sentenced on Monday, July 6 after a judge called his actions as "plumbing the depths of depravity", the Manchester Evening News reports.
According to NY Post, prosecutors revealed that the married former recruitment consultant had posted a video of himself online where he was seen raping a child. Muscroft had joined a group for sickos who have a sexual interest in children on Kik Messenger called 'Share Bears No Limits'. Muscroft used the username 'Diablo1987' and had posted the sickening footage on the group which was shared with 37 others. He also tried to get and obtain videos of similar nature from the group.
When other members in the group asked him, Muscroft said that he was very much interested in "anything from 0 to 15" while referring to his minor and underage victims. Muscroft had then bragged about the incident online and had said, "I’m into all sorts, young, anything from 0-15 mainly into girls but have been with guys before… but the guys were older."
"Not into pain stuff really. Also like panties," Muscroft added. The Lancashire Telegraph reports that a deputy US sheriff who was working as an undercover had seen the images that Muscroft had shared and had tipped off the FBI. Investigators found how he had been secretly communicating with children as young as 12 from the UK and the US for a four year period. He had exchanged several explicit messages with them, The Sun reveals.
Muscroft's wife had released a statement saying that her husband's dark side had left a "devastating impact" on her and that her life had been "torn apart by his deception." Since the incident came to light, she has left him, the authorities reveal. The Minshull Street Crown Court had branded him an ongoing danger to the public by a judge and said that he had "plumbed the depths of depravity". Muscroft had admitted rape, sexual assault, making and distributing indecent images of children.
It has been reported that he will be in prison until 2044 and was also ordered to sign the Sex Offender Register. Thanks to a restraining order, he has also been banned from contacting his estranged wife. Prosecutor Alaric Bassano said, "His wife, with whom he had been in a relationship for 16 years - 10 years living together and married for two and a half years - described their relationship as a normal, happy one without any problems at all."
"She viewed him as loving and caring but the reality was somewhat different. He joined a pedophile sharing group and the evidence reveals serious depravity on his part and offending of the utmost gravity. He had a longstanding and deep-seated sexual interest in children," Bassano added. Muscroft had managed to get access to a baby and abused the child before sending pictures of the same.
"In one online conversation, the defendant quipped that it was expedient for him to have a victim who was unable to talk and offered to further abuse the child in a manner specified by the other person in return for like images, effectively inciting child abuse abroad," Bassano said. "Unfortunately for him one of the people he was communicating with was an undercover Deputy Sheriff in USA. The FBI immediately notified UK police who arrested the defendant. His phones were examined and revealed all the offenses and offending conversations."