An entrenched Paignton Paedophile, Daniel Keenor, was apprehended by undercover police while transmitting depraved sexual recordings to individuals he believed to be 12-year-old girls. Daniel Keenor utilised encrypted chat platforms to disseminate films depicting the abuse of very young children by adults.
The 46-year-old, Daniel Keenor, proposed convening with the females for sexual encounters and administering narcotics. Unbeknownst to him, the ‘children’ were covert law enforcement agents.
Police visited his residence in Paignton and apprehended him. Daniel Keenor is a documented sex offender with an extensive history of such offences.
Exeter Crown Court was told he had previously completed a sex offender programmes to change his deviant behaviour but it had not worked. Daniel Keenor admitted 18 offences relating to the sharing and possession of indecent images and to attempting to engage children in sexual communication and activity.
Recorded Mathew Turner said he posed a risk of offending again. He jailed him for seven years and nine months and added an extra sentence of two years and nine months to be served on licence.
Police started their investigation into his online activities in 2022. He made contact with a succession of undercover officers posing as children or parents. A feature of all Daniel Keenor’s offending was his use of sites such as Wikr, WhatsApp and Kik to chat and send images.
In June of last year he contacted what he thought was the father of a 12-year-old on a fetish website and quickly diverted the chat to an encrypted platform. Daniel Keenor discussed having sex with the child and plying her with drugs. He then sent the ‘father’ 109 indecent movies of children. Some were in the most serious category and included infants as young as two years old.
Daniel Keenor also made contact with what he thought was the mother of a 10-year-old and suggested meeting her to have sex. He shared further movies.
In December he sent a friend request to an undercover officer posing as a 12-year-old girl called Ruby. He asked for sexual images of her and sent some of a penis and other extreme images involving animals.
His offending continued into 2023 when he shared further images and encouraged the fictional child to “get naked” and engage in sexual activity.
Daniel Keenor was jailed for two years in 2013 for distributing indecent images and given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order to control his behaviour. He went on to breach that order several times and commit similar offences, including in 2020 when he was jailed for 26 months for communicating with a decoy.
A pre-sentence report by probation described him as entrenched and persistent in his behaviour. Recorder Turner said the defendant’s offending started after the break-up of a relationship and his risk increased due to leading an isolated life.
He said he had no doubt Daniel Keenor posed a significant risk of committing similar offences in the future and an extended sentence was merited.
Daniel Keenor, of Rosemary Gardens, must serve two thirds of his seven years and three month sentence before the parole board considers whether he is safe to release. He will be subject to an extended licence period for the full 10 years.
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