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British youth worker pleads guilty to abuse

A youth worker in a British church has admitted to befriending young boys in order to sexually abuse them, and then bragging about it in Internet chat rooms.

Baxter, of Zetland Road, Redland, pleaded guilty to 23 charges, dating from when he was himself aged under 16, in 2001, until 2008. His offences included making more than 8,000 indecent photographs and videos of children, and distributing more than 3,000 images and videos of children via the internet. He admitted sexually assaulting and taking indecent images of four boys aged between four and 12. The abuse took place at his home, at other houses in the city and at the church in Clare Road.