The shamed 40-year-old Welsh singer is currently serving 35 years for . He was a normal happy young lad who grew up in the Valleys in a loving family which had no more problems than anybody else has.". On Tuesday, Watkins admitted sickening sexual offences against children , including the attempted rape of a baby. A child has been taken into care after former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins was found to be grooming a mother from prison. Singer & Recording Artist. We didn't know what else to do. Watkins was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court at the same time as two women, who cannot be named, who had offered their children to him. It is a very deep bond. Discover Ian "H" Watkins's. Game; Ian "H" Watkins. (Photo: James Watkins/ BBC) BBC Radio 2, Paul O'Grady . The mum-of-onehad a previous sexual encounter shortly after Watkins found fame as frontman of Welsh rock band Lostprophets. Nominations Received It is not long before the communications turn to child sex abuse. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. The article then notes this: She was shocked when he asked what she would do if her daughter came into the room during sex. 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The depraved former Lostprophets singer posed online, alongside a willing woman pretending to be his sister, to sell their bodies for cash. Watkins 24-year-old younger brother Daniel agreed, adding that he changed when the band moved to LA. Right: Mugshot via South Wales Police. A witness within the prison notes that Watkins acts like"he doesn't have a care in the world" while hanging out with fans. sex with an 11-month-old baby. claims that reports of Watkins abuse were made to South Wales October 16, 2017, 4:31am. Stacie first met Watkins after a gig in her hometown of Nottingham, managing to get backstage through a Lostprophets sound engineer she knew. I was completely confused. . He grew obsessed with the explicit Adultword chat website and revelled in touting himself out for sexual depravity. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? In 2013, he was sentenced to 29 years of imprisonment for multiple sexual offences, including the sexual assault of young children and babies, a sentence later augmented by ten months for being found guilty of . Phone: Cell/Mobile/Wireless and/or landline telephone numbers for Kelly Sullivan in Oklahoma City, OK. (580) 233-5904. Although he was not arrested until December of 2012, the police were first given information about Watkins a full four years earlier. Prior to that they had been straight edge, or clean living and well behaved. "If you've decided to stop f***** around and bring your ensnaring A-game from now on. 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"The reason for this decision is that we believe that there is potentially a serious threat towards your daughter's safety and your own wellbeing. Information Her daughter was taken into care last December, but the woman has continued to see Watkins, and in March bought an engagement ring for herself at his suggestion. I did not know this guy was a monster. Tbf I have no idea if you could even handle it, or if you'd even be into it. Especially the type of visitors he was known to prey on. Photo:John Phillips/EMPICS Entertainment. The judge, Mr Justice Royce, told the singer: "What you three did plumbs new depths of depravity.". 'My rock': Stacie posing with Ian Watkins before his descent into depravity, Painful: Stacie Rushby walked away from Ian Watkins as he descended into depravity, Mugshot: Ian Watkins was jailed for 29 years and given six years on licence, Ian Watkins ex Stacie talks to The Daily Mirror. 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The devastated parents of Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins have spoken of their horror at their sons crimes against children. for Watkins' own mother who he said was seriously ill after a 2 (Days 21 & 26) and (of course) Steps Reunion! betrayal by exposing them to the paedophile. I hope not," said Mr Davies. Mother Who IAN WATKINS "Groomed" From Prison Loses Custody of Two-Year-Old Daughter. He was using the same tactics he used on other young mothers who were fans in trying to convince them to allow him to fondle their children. But she insisted: I wont let my daughter near him.. The next two tweets were linked to a solo remix project of his, "L'Amour La Morgue", with one even seeming to suggest he may be working on new music by announcing: "New! "Its the first thing a parent asks themselves where did we go wrong? And only time will tell who those victims are.. Still to this day I am struggling to get my head around it all. You may have already heard the news about Ian Watkins, the former frontman of '90s rockers Lostprophets, who admitted yesterday in a court in Cardiff, Wales, . But he now doesnt like to associate himself with the disgraced star. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. One was set up with the name 'Ian Watkins is our greatest crush', A raft of messages were left for him on his birthday on July 30, The administrator posted this update on July 23, One Instagram page dedicated to Watkins had more than 2,000 followers. Nov 2020 - Feb 20221 year 4 months. Ian Watkins (born 8 May 1976), known by his stage name as H (which stands for "hyperactive"), is a Welsh singer and actor. Scroll to continue reading. The friend noted she received a letter back saying Watkins "loved her." SEQUENCE INITIATED". "While Watkins is now thankfully behind bars where he belongs, and improvements have already been made by South Wales Police, it's clear that very serious mistakes were made in handling multiple early allegations and this report's recommendations must be adopted swiftly. "They lost their reputation and livelihood over that man. She said: "He's a very sick man and I don't think he's in the right place, he needs to be in a proper hospital. Other Facebook and Instagram pages dedicated to Watkins had more than 3,000 followers in total, and regularly posted old pictures of him some of which he posed with young female fans in. Church minister John Davies, 53, and his wife Elaine, 60, say they are struggling to understand what turned their son from a straight-A pupil raised in a Baptist manse in Pontypridd to a paedophile whose dark sexual desires knew almost no boundaries. But she could not coax him away from hardcore drugs, and so she walked away. He wasn't in his right mind. But the couple added they would not abandon Watkins, instead hoping he can be rehabilitated. Conditions. A past girlfriend of paedophile Ian Watkins has revealed how the warped rock star prostituted himself out on the internet as a sex slave.. It seems like Watkins is in a relatively low-security prison, which blows me away. The first "liked" a track uploaded by a fan of his, Laim McKenzie, whose Soundcloud account is @MEGALELZ. And she told how, just before he was exposed to the world as a predatory paedophile, he had deteriorated into a 'fat mess' and 'lost soul', prone to persistent self-harming, with initials carved into his flesh. ", Lostprophets at Reading Festival in 2010. The depraved rocker will serve two thirds before being considered for release. Find out why here on CrackedRack. . In particular, the IPCC investigation highlighted the fact that when Mjadzelics first reported Watkins to the police she had a text message on her phone that Watkins had sent her in August of 2007, explicitly saying that he wanted to have sex with children. In one letter, he wrote: "My AW (AdultWork) location was London there was always way more work there and way more fun. Full of pics and video of us being very bad. The police said he wouldnt think twice about hanging you or Your California Privacy Rights In 2015 she stood trial for possessing and distributing the child sex abuse images that she used to try and trap him. Liam The Terrible of youtube wants nothing to do with Ian Watkins or the cult of Ian Watkins. Shops pulled their records from their shelves. Should I just bin it or did you still want it at some point? I don't want to be known as the brother of Ian Watkins.'" 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