Woman who organised rape and sexual abuse of little girl told men involved there were 'no boundaries'

A woman told two men there were "no boundaries" as she organised the rape and sexual abuse of a young girl.

Vicki Bevan, 37, Paul Rafferty, 62 and Tony Hutton, 42, all from St Helens, pleaded guilty to a number of sexual offences in January 2022 after being involved in the calculated abuse of a girl under the age of 10 years old between 2019 to 2021. Bevan, who began conversations between the other two men about the abuse, rape and torture of the female minor, said there were 'no boundaries at all' after being asked by one of the men if there were any.

Harrowing images of the abuse and rape were found on Ms Bevan's mobile phone. They were also shared between the other two men and Ms Bevan also shared the pictures of the abuse on the social media platform Kik Messenger. The three shared images of Bevan abusing the child on her own but the men also took part in the abuse in person.

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The abuse was uncovered after police arrested a fourth man on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children, where pictures of the abuse carried out by Ms Bevan were discovered on his phone. Police also recovered a video that showed Ms Bevan sexually abusing the child, Liverpool Echo reports.

The 37-year-old was arrested last year on October 25, while Rafferty was arrested on November 3, 2021 and Hutton on November 4. The two men admitted they were the ones in the images of the abuse, but claimed Ms Bevan was the main instigator. Ms Bevan claimed that much of the conversations between her and the two men regarding what she would do to children was fantasy and that she would never act it out. She claimed to be sorry for what she had done to the young