How Could You? Hall of Shame-UK Rex Case UPDATED
This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.
From Southampton, UK, 68-year-old foster father Rex Case was convicted on “18 counts of abuse, including indecent assaults and rape” that occurred over a 30 year period of being a foster carer. He faces life in prison.
“The case had taken almost two years to come to court but spanned back to the 1980s when Case preyed on his first victim, who was a girl aged 15.
The Daily Echo has sought the consent of each of the five victims and had to make a special application to the judge in order to reveal the full and sickening behaviour of Case.”
“During the past two and a half weeks jurors have heard how Case:
• Raped a girl under the age of five.
• Sexually assaulted girls daily, sometimes in their bedrooms or in the bathroom.
• Would sneak into rooms while they were sleeping to touch them.
• Would bathe and dry girls as old as 13, rubbing baby oil and cream on them.
• Would carry out some of his vile acts while his wife Carol watched.
The sex abuse was carried out mostly in Case’s large family home in Holly Hill, Bassett, Southampton, where the couple lived with their son Dean.
Giving evidence in his own defence Case told how he had fostered some 24 boys and girls since qualifying as a foster carer.
But he went on to say he had many more young girls staying in his home – 34 in total – who included foreign children who had come to Southampton to study.”
“• Victim One
The court was told how his first victim, who we are referring to as “M”, was aged 15 and lived with Case between August 1982 and August 1983.
She had already suffered a childhood of sexual abuse but Case took advantage of her while she was drunk – sitting on her bed, stroking her and kissing her open mouthed.
His second victim was much younger – aged just 20 months when she first lived with Case in June 1995, because he was fostering her mother.
The court was told how the little girl, known as “J”, grew up being told to call Case grandad.
She would have to watch him having sex with her mother before he began to turn his attention to her.
Jurors were told how Case’s wife would sometimes watch as “J” was abused in her bedroom, where she would be locked in behind a stair gate, and in the bath.
It was so sustained she would be left crying out in pain, being sick and bleeding.
When it was over he would tell her she was “dirty and disgusting” and when she complained it hurt he would laugh.
Case’s third victim, “A”, was aged four to five when she spent six months living with Case from July 1998, when her mum was too unwell to look after her.
She was scared and felt unsafe living with him and he would tell her she had “sexy legs” and looked good.
He would make her kiss him on the lips and he would kiss her neck, face and touch her bottom.
In her bedroom he would tickle her and then sexually assault her on her bed and he would dry her and abuse her when she took a shower.
In June 2000 Case’s fourth victim, referred to as “R”, went to stay with him at the age of six. He was her mother’s foster carer but was minding her daughter.
She woke on two occasions to find Case – who she was made to call grandad – sexually assaulting her under the blanket, having pulled her pyjamas down below her knees.
It was only just before “R” was about to sit her GCSEs in May 2010 that she finally plucked up the courage to tell her mother what had happened.
His final victim, “M”, was aged 13 and was not being fostered by Case when she first stayed with him in June 2003.
During a holiday in Florida he would sneak into her bedroom and sniff her hair and he sexually assaulted her on the couch.
Back home in Southampton a year later the girl was sexually assaulted by Case “every other night” and he would tell her it was their “special time”.
The girl told how she let it continue for five years because she had a younger sister and didn’t want it to happen to her.
Case showed no emotion yesterday as he was told he would be remanded in custody until he is sentenced for his crimes.
Judge Henry told him he could not exclude an indeterminate sentence because he had concerns over him posing a danger, particularly to young girls, in the future.”
Paedophile foster carer Rex Case facing jail after years of abuse in Southampton
[Daily Echo 2/23/12 by Jenny Makin]
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Update:”A DEPRAVED Southampton youth worker serving a life sentence for sexually abusing children has been jailed for four more years for another historical offence.Rex Case, 72, was sentenced for indecently assaulting a 16-year-old girl.
He is already serving 21 years for 18 offences against five females committed over almost 30 years when he was a foster carer.
Following his jailing in February 2012 a serious case review and then a fresh police inquiry was launched, bringing this latest case to light.
Winchester Crown Court heard that Case was working at a Hampshire youth housing project and assaulted a 16-year-old girl some time between February 1, 1996, and December 31, 1998.
Case, who appeared via video link from Parkhurst Isle of Wight prison, admitted the allegation. The project was for young people between 16 and 24 leaving foster care or with problems.
Kerry Maylin, prosecuting, said the police tracked down former residents and asked open-ended questions about concerns regarding their time at the project.
The attack happened when she was staying here and one evening was talking to Case. He gave her cider and later when she had gone to bed used a master key to get into her room and assault her.
In a victim impact statement, Ms Maylin said the victim had been seriously affected and had difficulty forming relationships. “She failed to cope with what happened and it resulted in her losing her home and children but she is rebuilding her life.”
Sarah Jones, mitigating, said this was a one-off offence. She said Case had himself been abused while a boy. “He was in a position to mete out to others the misery he had experienced Case’s wife, who has stood by him, is very ill and unlikely to see him released from jail, said Ms Jones.
Sentencing, Judge Robert Hill said Case had abused a position of trust to target a vulnerable youngster.
He told Case that the four-year sentence starts now so it will almost certainly be served by the time Case is released.
Case, formerly of Holly Hill, Bassett, was unusually allowed to remain seated as he was sentenced, largely because had he stood up the video camera would only have filmed his midriff.
When he was first jailed in 2012, the 72-year-old was described as “devious, manipulative, cunning, defensive, aggressive and obsessive”
Judge Peter Henry went on to tell Case that he had followed “a past of systematic abuse.”
He went on to describe how the “most surprising thing” was that the sexual abuse she suffered “for reasons that still escape me” never led to the prosecution of Case in the late 1990s.
Police later admitted that they had missed earlier opportunities to prosecute Case.”
Pervert foster carer Rex Case given four more years in jail for 1990s sex abuse in Winchester [Daily Echo 5/19/16]
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