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Article: Depraved sex fiend jailed for eleven years Monster abused boy from when he was six
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- March 5, 2004
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A DEPRAVED serial paedophile, who allegedly forced a six-year-old
boy to watch him perform sex acts on farm animals began an 11 year
jail sentence today.
Sexual obsessive Joseph Henry Bateson (39), from Cairnmorn Road,
Toomebridge was just 13 years old when he began to mercilessly
sexually abuse, beat and torture the little boy who lived on the farm
next to his home.
His victim Gerard McIlroy, now 31, bravely waived his right to
anonymity in an attempt to put the monster who destroyed his
childhood behind bars.
Today Crown Court Judge McFarland sentenced Bateson, who was
described by a defence barrister as a "model father and husband", to
11 years for a string of horrific sex offences ...