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Wigan deputy head teacher admits 18 child sex offences
Julie Morris was filmed repeatedly abusing a child under the age of thirteen with her partner
A primary school deputy head teacher has admitted to eighteen child sex offences, including two counts of rape.
Julie Morris, forty-four, and her partner David Morris, fifty-two, repeatedly filmed themselves abusing and raping a child under the age of thirteen, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Morris, the safeguarding lead at St George’s Central C of E Primary School in Wigan, admitted two counts of rape, nine of inciting a child under the age of thirteen to engage in sexual activity and two of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.
The charges are not related to her employment at the school.
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She also admitted three counts of taking indecent images of a child, one of engaging in sexual communication with a child and one of possessing indecent images of a child.
Her partner, from St Helens, admitted thirty-four offences at a previous hearing.
Prosecutor John Wyn Williams told the court how the couple had met on dating app Plenty of Fish in 2016 after both separating from their partners, detailing how the relationship ‘quickly became intensely sexual’.
Williams said, according to BBC News: “The communication between them became graphic and depraved which led to some of their sexual fantasies becoming a reality.”
The prosecutor said the couple’s ‘sordid secret’ was only revealed when police found a conversation about sexual abuse of children involving David Morris in a phone seized during a search warrant.
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And while he was cautioned and released, a number of devices were seized which showed the incriminating recordings of rape and sexual abuse, the court heard.
As well as videos and images on David Morris’s phone, police picked apart 175,000 pages of messages between the couple, revealing sexually explicit communications.
The couple were arrested the following day as they seemingly attempted to evade police capture in a camper van with £10,000 in their possession.
The couple are due to be sentenced at a later date.