A COUPLE "with a thoroughly distorted perception of sexuality" abused a baby and filmed it on a mobile phone.
Christopher Oxtoby, 27, and Katie Scott, 26, were sentenced at Northampton Crown Court yesterday for the sick abuse which was revealed when the FBI discovered the film last year.
The pair, of Ashbrow Road, Briar Hill, Northampton, were arrested afte
r information was passed on from the FBI following the arrest of an American paedophile who had the film on his computer.
Pearl Willis, prosecuting, said Scott abused the baby and allowed Oxtoby to video it.
She told officers she had done it so as to prevent him from sulking.
Oxtoby, who started sexually offending when he was 14, then downloaded it onto a computer but no evidence could be found how it ended up in America.
Judge Thomas Corrie jailed Scott for four-and-a-half years in prison, placing both on the sex offenders' register for life.
Oxtoby was given an indeterminate sentence for public protection and will only be considered for parole in three-and-a-half years' time.
Judge Corrie said Oxtoby clearly had problems. "You have demonstrated by your actions an unhealthy interest in young children."
A police spokesman said the pair's crimes were "totally abhorrent".
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