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The Met Police have started a murder inquiry into the death of a 4 year old girl in Clapton.
Police were called by the ambulance service at 15:23hrs on Thursday 16
December to reports of a stabbing at flat on the Chatsworth Estate in Clapton E5.

Police and the ambulance service attended and found a 4-year-old girl. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Next of kin have been informed, though we await formal identification.

A post-mortem examination will take place on 11.00hrs on Saturday 18 December at Poplar mortuary.

Officers from the Child Abuse Investigation Command Major Investigation Team are investigating.

A woman aged 36 years was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.
She has since been sectioned under the Mental Health Act and remains in a
secure unit at this time.

Enquiries continue.

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Man jailed for systematic abuse of young girls

A "PREDATORY abuser" has been jailed for 11 years for carrying out indecent acts against young girls over a 16-year period.

A
jury at Guildford Crown Court found Eric Adie, 72, of Ash Grove,
Fernhurst, West Sussex, guilty of attempted rape and 10 counts of
committing gross indecency with a child.

The offences were committed against thee girls in Surrey and Hertfordshire between 1982 and 1998.

Adie
was found not guilty on a further charge of assault, ill treatment and
neglect of a child for which no evidence was offered.

Caroline
Carberry, prosecuting, said during a seven-day trial that Adie had
subjected his victims who, at the time of the offences, were aged
between five and 14-years-old, to more serious abuse as time went on.

“He became a predatory abuser, lurking near parks and taking them home," she told the court.

Jurors heard how Adie befriended the girls in Haslemere and later in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, while out walking his dogs.

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Plymouth girl, 14, became 'sex toy' for paedophile parents who traded her online

A PLYMOUTH couple who groomed their 14-year-old daughter to take part in sickening sex acts have been jailed for a total of 13 years at Plymouth Crown Court.

The girl's parents, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also took pictures of her in simulated sex acts with both of them and with an animal.

The Plymouth man pleaded guilty to nine charges: taking part in a sexual act with a family member, four counts of causing a child to take part in sexual activity, two of making indecent images of a child and two of distributing indecent images.

His long-term partner pleaded guilty to two charges of causing or inciting a child to take part in a sexual activity, one of making indecent photographs of a child and another charge of cruelty to a child.

The prosecution told the court that the couple moved to Plymouth in 1994, just before the girl was born.

Their young son had been taken into care and was later adopted after he had been physically abused by his father.

The court was told that when the girl was four, she was found at home alone, telling police her parents had gone to the pub.

She also said her father would kick her legs if she did not eat properly.

The next year, her father was seen to smack her across the face.

Two years after that, she arrived at school with bruising on her arm, saying her father had hit her.

The next year, her school referred her to social services because she had a bite on her arm made by a male family friend, said the prosecution.

The girl said she wanted to get away from her father and stay somewhere safe.

In 2002, she was briefly taken into foster care, but could not stay because of her "inappropriate sexualised behaviour" towards males in the family, the court was told.

In 2007, her father removed her from school and announced she would be home-tutored.

But no one from local education or child welfare authorities ever checked on her welfare or home tuition, the court was told.

Prosecution said that by the age of 14, the girl was being used "as a sexual toy" by her father.

Police were alerted when the victim and another young girl uploaded a large number of indecent images on to a social networking website.

Officers raided the couple's home and found a large number of indecent images of the girl on the father's computer.

In some photos, they were able to identify him as the man in the picture from his distinctive tattoos.

Some of the photos showed apparent acts of gross indecency with an animal, although the defence claimed they were simulated.

Another photo showed the girl performing an indecent act with her mother.

The prosecution described internet traffic in which the man sent photos of the girl to a paedophile abroad, and took requests from him over poses he wanted for future photos.

A report by a child psychologist said the girl greatly enjoyed being admired and was proud of her body.

She blamed herself for getting her parents into trouble, but she was being controlled and manipulated by predatory males.

In mitigation, it was said that the man was remorseful and willing to participate in treatment, while the mother, a vulnerable woman, was under his influence and torn between what was best for her daughter and what was best for her relationship.

Judge Francis Gilbert QC told them: "This is a case of very serious sexual abuse and neglect of your daughter."

He jailed the man for 10 years, less 161 days spent on remand.

The woman was jailed for three years, less 59 days spent on remand.

Both were ordered to remain on the sex offenders register indefinitely, and the judge imposed Sexual Offences Prevention Orders until further order of the court.

Bronwen Lacey, Plymouth City Council's director of services for children and young people, said: "This is a truly horrific case of abuse that will affect the young person involved for the rest of their life.

"We have been and will continue to focus our efforts on ensuring all the support, guidance and counselling needed is provided and that we work with the young person to help them move on with their life.

"While the conviction is recent, the social services case is historic — initial contact with the child took place in the early 1990s and the last contact with the then social services department was in 2002.

"We have since made massive strides in the standard of children's social care and safeguarding."

Detective Constable Andy Thorne, from Devon and Cornwall Police's Force Child Exploitation Unit, said: "This was a very difficult but thorough investigation which started as a result of receiving a very small piece of intelligence.

"As a result of detailed, sensitive and lengthy detective work, a team of dedicated officers were able to gather enough evidence to bring about this successful prosecution and bring these two people to justice.

"This has been a multi-agency investigation and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those involved.
Hopefully, the victim of the case can start to look to the future."

http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/Plymouth-girl-14-sex-toy-paedophile-parents-traded-online/article-2091055-detail/article.html