Two men have been arrested and jailed for grooming young boys online, before meeting them and sexually abusing them.
53-year-old Anthony Marsh who is also HIV positive and 30-year-old Lee Davis have been jailed for life after their horrendous attack on these boys who were as young as 13.
The men are reportedly married with kids. They use social networks like Facebook and Bebo as well as specialist gay websites to befriend boys before meeting them and sexually abusing them.
They have admitted to a string of sexual offences against children, starting in 2004 by which time Marsh had been diagnosed with HIV.
According to court records, the men will take the victims to woods, or Davis's van, or even the boys' own bedrooms when their parents were out.
While trolling for preys online, these paedophiles will use pseudonyms on the web but did not pose as teenagers as they utilised a range of social networking sites and communication sites including Skype and Grindr.
The court also heard how Davis had a secret 'dirty phone' and had sent and received more than 40,000 texts, following up his internet activity.
They reportedly spent hours online grooming their victims, most of whom were young teenagers coming to terms with their sexuality.
The judge referred to their youngest known victim - a 13-year-old from Lancashire - who was initially abused by Marsh in his own bedroom at home and then, later, raped by Davis after Marsh had passed on his details.
Davis recorded his abuse of the boy on a 45-minute long video tape which, the court was told, clearly showed the youngster in his bedroom, pleading with the defendant not to do what he is doing.
It was also revealed that the pair were caught after Marsh was arrested in May 2012 at a hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, after he was spotted with indecent images of children.
Police found a library of films hidden in the cellar of Davis’s home showing him abusing the boys, and officers also established that Marsh distributed some footage over the web.
The pair were sentenced after admitting conspiracy to commit sexual activity with children, meeting a child following sexual grooming and number of other sex offences - 55 charges in all - in September this year. Davis admitted further charges relating to indecent images today.
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