Jordan Croft has been jailed for 18 years and will serve a further eight on licence (Picture: Sussex News)
A ‘twisted’ and ‘cruel’ paedophile who blackmailed girls as young as 12 to be his ‘sex slaves’ has been jailed for 18 years.
Jordan Croft, 26, admitted 65 offences involving 26 victims who were forced to send photos and videos of themselves performing sexual and degrading acts.
In a powerful statement to Lewes Crown Court, one victim said she hoped Croft would ‘burn in hell’.
Croft, from Worthing in West Sussex, posed as a 12-year-old boy online with the intention of ‘dominating and controlling’ young girls, according to the National Crime Agency (NCA).
The paedophile was in contact with more than 5,000 people on one particular online platform.
He would force his victims to send him nude photos and would then demand more depraved and graphic content, often while the girls were at school.
He moved conversations with his victims onto the encrypted platform Telegram.
The girls and young women he abused were between the ages of 12 and 22, and were made to film themselves saying they were entering into Croft’s ‘contract of sexual slavery’.
Croft was active between April 2018 to September 2019 when he was arrested by National Crime Agency officers (Picture: National Crime Agency/SWNS)
Croft’s ‘contract of sexual slavery’ which he would send out to his victims (Picture: National Crime Agency/SWNS)
He forced his victims to sexually abuse themselves and others and would demand they urinate and defecate over themselves to satisfy his ‘toilet kink’, according to the NCA.
Some of the victims were even forced to gargle urine and perform enemas on themselves.
His victims would have to ask for permission to go to the toilet and say when they were going to be busy so Croft knew they weren’t ignoring him.
He would set punishments and threaten to expose them to their family and social media followers if they did not follow the rules.
In a series of victim statements read out to the court, Croft was branded ‘cruel, twisted, pathetic paedophile’ who had caused ’emotional torment’ and ‘physical and psychological damage’ to the girls he abused.
A police surveillance image of Jordan Croft which was captured (Picture: National Crime Agency/ SWNS)
He was arrested by NCA officers in September 2019, after they found he was behind various usernames which featured in reports of online abuse filed by a number of police forces in England. His offending dated back to April 2018.
The NCA was able to uncover the full extent of his offending after seizing numerous devices, including his two mobile phones and a USB stick.
He pleaded guilty today to the charges of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, blackmail, making unwarranted demands for indecent images of children, intentionally causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child, and making more than 900 indecent images of children in categories A to C.
As well as being sentenced to 18 years in prison and a further eight years on licence, he will also be placed on the sex offenders’ register for life.
He will also be subject to an indefinite sexual harm prevention order and a restraining order preventing him from contacting his victims.
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Martin Ludlow, senior investigating officer at the NCA, called Croft a ‘prolific offender who has caused heart-breaking suffering to many victims and their families’.
‘The sexual depravity he consistently displayed during this abuse of both young female children and adults is horrific,’ he said.
‘Like many offenders Croft thrived on the power he was able to exert over the victims. He sought the feeling of control and obtained it by deceit and abuse.
‘He showed no compassion for the victims, pushing them to breaking point and issuing threats, even when they begged him to stop.
‘I commend these young women who have shown such bravery in speaking out against him.’
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One victim said she hoped Croft would ‘burn in hell’.
