'I cried for hours, blaming myself for not protecting my child from that monster'

A 'monster' used a selfie stick to peer at a little girl and her unsuspecting mum through a gap in their bathroom window,

Scott Barker secretly filmed the youngster and her mum while they showered and used the toilet, the Liverpool Echo reports. He attached his mobile phone to a selfie stick and took videos at least eight times, a court heard.

Police uncovered the clips when they raided the 28-year-old's paedophile's home in Birkenhead last April. They also found a stash of vile child pornography.

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Barker himself admitted he was 'sick in the head'. The shocked mum said she 'blamed herself for not protecting her daughter' after his sick crimes were exposed.

At Liverpool Crown Court yesterday (April 17), Barker was jailed after admitting three counts of making indecent images of children, possession of indecent images of children, taking indecent images of children, voyeurism, and possession of prohibited images.

Prosecutor Ian Criddle said: "The defendant was arrested at his home following a search warrant, and when the police attended at his address he admitted immediately that he had committed certain offences. As a result of the warrant, his admissions and his arrest, various items were recovered: a Huawei phone, an SD card, a hard drive and a further phone.

"It's from that phone that the evidence was initially recovered. It's clear that on at least eight separate occasions the defendant has taken videos of both mother and daughter while they have been in the bathroom.

"They had left a gap in the window to let the steam out while showering and he had taken the opportunity to film them through the window.