Shropshire woman who offered her daughter to Bridgnorth paedophile is jailed
The woman was sentenced alongside paedophile Christopher Brownhill who she met online.
A Shropshire woman who offered to provide her own daughter for sex with a paedophile has been jailed.
Shrewsbury Crown Court heard on Friday that the woman, who cannot be named to protect the identity of her child, offered to take her toddler to meet Christopher Brownhill, of Linley View Drive, Bridgnorth, after the pair met on a dating website at the end of 2017.
Mr Dylan Wagg, prosecuting, told the court that the woman who is from the Telford area, began chatting to Brownhill, now aged 38, because he was local and living in the Shropshire area.
Mr Wagg said the pair soon moved their conversation to messaging app Kik, where he said the pair began discussing their sexual preferences.
He told the court that this included the pair’s “sexual attraction to children” and interest in the “abuse of children”.
He told the court that the woman sent Brownhill “non sexual” pictures of her baby daughter, before suggesting the pair could meet with the woman promising to bring her daughter for Brownhill to abuse.
Further more explicit conversations took place, in which Brownhill outlined to the woman what he would do to the child sexually when they finally met up.
The barrister told the court that the pair’s chat was discovered by an undercover police officer and both the woman and Brownhill were arrested.
After she was interviewed, the woman claimed she was “writing a macabre book and doing research” but the court heard in later interviews she claimed to be having a “depressive episode”.
Both Brownhill and the woman, who were convicted following a trial earlier this year of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence, had never actually met, the court was told in the pair’s mitigation, and no abuse of any children took place.
The court also heard that the woman no longer has contact with her daughter.
But Mr Wagg explained to the court that Brownhill had a similar conversation with another Kik user before he began chatting with the woman, where he was arranging to meet the user and her “toddler” sister, although the barrister told the court the user was never traced but Brownhill was convicted by the jury of a second count of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence after the chat was uncovered by police.
Judge Deni Mathews described the facts of the case as “deeply unpleasant and grotesque” and described the conversations between Brownhill and the woman as “depravity”.
He told the woman: “While I remind myself the meeting never took place, there was a significant conversation into the planning. This was a profound breach of trust.”
He jailed the her for six years and placed a sexual harm prevention order on her.
The judge jailed Brownhill for eleven years and put a sexual harm prevention order in place.