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Pedophile ‘Monster child rapist’ jailed for life, after police unpixelate his face in sex attack photos from videos he peddled on the dark web

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e1f22&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>&&num;8216&semi;Monster’ child rapist <strong>from Pembrokeshire&comma; UK&comma;<&sol;strong> jailed after police unpixelate his face in sex attack photos from years back with brand new decryption tool <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e1f22&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Martyn Armstrong pled guilty to a total of 41 counts of rape of a child under the age of 13 and sexual assault related to two victims&comma; and to making&comma; distributing and possessing indecent images of children <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e1f22&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Armstrong documented himself committing &OpenCurlyQuote;depraved’ acts against three children&comma; including a victim as young as one<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e1f22&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>He performed these acts between 2005 and 2011 and posted the pictures to the dark web<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e1f22&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Armstrong had used photoshop to place a zig-zag distortion across his image&comma; but made no attempt to disguise the identities of his victims <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e1f22&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Armstrong&comma; 50&comma; aka &&num;8216&semi;Father Jones&&num;8217&semi;&comma; was arrested in July last year after officers developed a new decrypting tool that unpixelates a masked image <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e1f22&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The upload of his most depraved acts was known to crime agencies across the world since 2013 due to the file being shared and downloaded across 18 countries<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;Martyn-Armstrong-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-426474" width&equals;"838" height&equals;"677"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>50-yearold child rapist Martyn Armstrong&comma; aka &&num;8216&semi;Father Jones&&num;8217&semi; in the dark web&comma; was jailed for life&period; he has been described as a prolific and &OpenCurlyQuote;evil’ child rapist<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A prolific and &OpenCurlyQuote;evil’ child rapist has finally been brought to justice and jailed for life after police used new technology to unpixelate photos he took while carrying out sex attacks&period;<br>Martyn Armstrong&comma; from Pembrokeshire&comma; recorded himself committing &OpenCurlyQuote;depraved’ acts against three children&comma; including a victim as young as one&comma; over the course of several years&period; The pervert then posted the images on the dark web&period;<br>Although Armstrong&&num;8217&semi;s activities had come to to the attention of authorities in several countries years back&comma; he was only arrested in July 2021 after authorities deployed new technology that unscrambled masked images&period;<br>Armstrong&comma; 50&comma; pled guilty to a total of 41 counts of rape of a child under the age of 13 and sexual assault related to two victims&comma; and to making&comma; distributing and possessing indecent images of children&period; <br>In a victim impact statement&comma; one of the people he abused labelled him a &OpenCurlyQuote;monster’ who had &OpenCurlyQuote;forever darkened a piece of my childhood&period;’<br>Roger Griffiths&comma; prosecuting&comma; told Cardiff crown court Armstrong had taken the images between 2005 and 2007&comma; as well as between December 2009 and February 2011&comma; and had admitted to taking photos of a third child on a beach in 2010&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;Martyn-Armstrong-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-426472" width&equals;"838" height&equals;"547"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Martyn Armstrong&comma; 50&comma; admitted a series of child sexual abuse charges&comma; including 41 counts of rape of a child under the age of 13 and sexual assault related to two victims&comma; as well as making&comma; distributing and possessing indecent images of children <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Armstrong posted 200 extremely graphic images and a video under the file name &OpenCurlyQuote;Father Jones’&comma; which shows him repeatedly raping his youngest victim&period;<br>The series was known to crime agencies across the world since 2013 due to the file being shared and downloaded across 18 countries&period; The folder was still being shared in the UK in early 2022 across six websites&comma; and had been found by police forces in 583 forensic submissions&period;<br>Griffiths said Armstrong had used photoshop to place a zig-zag distortion across his image&comma; but made no attempt to disguise the identities of his victims&period;<br>Due to his face being blurred&comma; investigators were unable to identify the pedophile for almost a decade&comma; despite attempts by law enforcement partners from Australia&comma; Italy and France&comma; with an officer from the latter country identifying the exact beach location in Wales&comma; which had featured in some of the images&period;<br>Griffiths said&colon; &OpenCurlyQuote;One image featured the offenders face with a zig-zag distortion&period; <br>As a result in July 2022 and the National Crime Agency &lbrack;NCA&rsqb;&comma; officers using their new image decrypting tool they were able to unpixelate the image of the defendant in that series&period;’<br>The software was developed by NCA officers in the UK and is the first of its kind to be developed in the world&period; It is expected the program will help future perpetrators to be identified&period;<br>From the undistorted image&comma; the officers were able to identify Armstrong’s Facebook profile leading to his arrest&period;<br>Officers seized a number of his devices and discovered a disturbing cache of images including 789 category A&comma; 989 category B and 2227 category C&period;<br>Griffiths said&colon; &OpenCurlyQuote;Armstrong was tracked down and asked if he was guilty of the offenses and he answered&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;To some of them&comma; yes”&period; <br>Adam Sharp&comma; defending&comma; said&colon; &OpenCurlyQuote;Armstrong does not want me to try to mitigate the depravity of his actions or the impact they had on his victims&period;’<br>Sharp said his client has taken full responsibility for his actions&comma; but asked the judge to take into account how he cooperated with officers and had led them to identify other victims&period;<br>In a victim impact statement read to the court&comma; one of his victims said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;The second I saw the piece of paper &lbrack;with the images&rsqb;&comma; it felt like I couldn’t breathe&period;<br>&&num;8220&semi;I saw my smiley&comma; younger self full of happiness&comma; confidence and innocence&period; I am no longer able to look at these pictures without a rush of panic and heartache&period; I feel betrayed&comma; manipulated and deceived&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br>Addressing Armstrong&comma; they said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;You abused me&comma; manipulated me and have forever darkened a piece of my childhood&period;<br>&&num;8220&semi;When I think about the type of person who could commit such horrific crimes&comma; I feel like only a monster could ever be responsible&period; Never did I think that all along&comma; the only monster was you&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br>Sentencing Armstrong to a life imprisonment with a minimum term of 14 years&comma; judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke noted that Armstrong clearly had a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;long lasting sexual interest” in young girls and that the photographs he had taken and distributed &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;will continue to be used for the sexual gratification of other pedophiles around the world”&period;<br>&&num;8220&semi;In these courts we deal with the most serious sexual offenses but the nature and depravity of your offending is shocking&period;<br>&&num;8220&semi;No doubt you thought the precautions you took to hide your identity would protect you from being identified&comma;&&num;8221&semi; judge Lloyd-Clark said&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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