British paedophile teacher has 135-YEAR prison sentence for distributing porn ... trends now
Spain's supreme court has upheld the 135-year prison sentence handed to a British teacher and nanny who created and distributed pornography featuring children in his care after changing his name following previous convictions.
Ben David Rose legally changed his identity after his conviction on child pornography charges in Britain, meaning that he did not appear as a registered sex offender during background checks in Spain.
Rose, previously known as Ben David Lewis, received a two-year suspended sentence in June 2016 for the child pornography offences in the English city of St Albans.
In August of that same year, with a new name and passport, he was working as a nanny in the Spanish city of Zaragoza, before moving to Madrid to nanny for two more young children and work as an English teacher at a private school.
When police later searched his phone, they found dozens of photos and videos of him with girls as young as six inside a classroom.
Rose was also convicted of photographing three children under 10 years old naked or in their underwear and distributing the images on the dark web from his time as a nanny in Zaragoza.
The Spanish supreme court upheld Rose's conviction and sentence in a lower court on child pornography offences, dozens of offences linked to disclosure of secrets, and a single conviction for a 'crime against moral integrity'. The total length of sentence totalled 135 years.
A paedophile teacher who changed his name after being convicted of sex crimes in the UK has 138 year jail sentence upheld in Spain
The verdict in his appeal comes at a time of heightened scrutiny for private schools in Spain, as police investigate how a lunch monitor at a French school in Barcelona was able to initiate sexual contact with children as young as five.
UK campaigners, including The Safeguarding Alliance charity, are lobbying the UK Government to amend the law on name changes.
'Existing laws are enabling offenders to work around the system, free to obscure their identity without being monitored,' the charity has said.
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