Overview
- Siah Riley, sentenced Thursday at Derby Crown Court, received 25 years in prison plus a six-year extended licence, along with a lifetime Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a lifetime place on the sex offender register.
- Prosecutors said he posed as teens using the Snapchat names Josh King and Kim to target children aged nine to 16, then used one device to chat, a second to covertly record, and stored files by victim name.
- Police seized devices holding thousands of child abuse files, including 1,831 images of identified victims that he kept for his own sexual gratification.
- Investigators and the Crown Prosecution Service mapped offending across 145 charges after forensic analysis of his electronics, and Riley pleaded guilty to all but one count.
- Judge Shaun Smith KC called him "every parent's worst nightmare" and cited the extraordinary scale of offending and his prior 2012 rape conviction in assessing the risk he poses.