A 78-year-old former parish councillor and Aylesbury Paedophile, Peter Orme, convicted of sexually and physically abusing four minors and compelling them to engage in violent bouts in a makeshift boxing ring until they ‘drew blood,’ has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Peter Orme, 78, was sentenced to 12 years in prison today for over 15 years of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of minors.
Peter Orme formerly held the position of chairman of Woughton Community Council in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
He was convicted of sexually and physically abusing minors from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Judge Geoffrey Payne was informed of the specifics of the abuse, including information regarding the boxing matches involving two young children.
In sentencing Peter Orme, Judge Payne stated: ‘You would configure chairs in the living room to resemble a boxing ring and compel the children to engage in combat, inciting them, particularly encouraging the boy, who was under 10 years old at the time, to fight the girl.’ The objective was to extract blood.
Peter Orme appeared in the dock at Aylesbury Crown Court as the judge reviewed the details of his abuse of three girls and one child from 1977 to 1992.
Peter Orme compelled a child, under the age of 13, to engage in a sexual act in the bathtub and sexually attacked a teenage girl after providing her with liquor and waiting for her to lose consciousness.
He was found guilty by a jury of two counts of gross indecency with a boy under 14 years, one crime of child maltreatment likely to cause unnecessary suffering, and four counts of indecent assault on a female under 14 years.
He was convicted of one count of indecent assault on a girl under 16 years and one count of taking an indecent photograph of a child.
Peter Orme will be on the Sex Offender Register for the duration of his life.
One of Peter Orme’s victims, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: ‘I think what he did has destroyed me. My mind is a total wreck. It’s always going through my mind.’
Another said: ‘When I look back at my childhood and at the time he came into my life, I can’t think of a single day I was truly happy.
‘He would question me and call me stupid. I found out later on I was dyslexic, but I had thought I was just thick.’
Defending him, Tania Panagiotopoulou said Peter Orme had lived in 24-hour hospital care before his arrest and asked for a ‘just and proportionate’ sentence.
Sentencing Peter Orme, Judge Payne said: ‘As soon as you came into the lives of the children, their lives turned for the worse.
‘You mistreated one of the victims, and one of the ways was by smacking him on the bottom, bending him over your knee, and taking his trousers down to humiliate him.
‘All of the children lived in fear. Another victim was kicked by you, and you would pull her underwear off and smack her, pulling her underwear off in front of boys, which I’m sure was calculated to humiliate and degrade her.
‘One of the victims had low self-esteem, and you invited her to the flat and got her drunk.
‘I imagine you thought the children would not come forward, and if they did, they wouldn’t be believed, and you were proved right to a point – there were complaints to the police, but no action was taken – a sad indictment of those times.
‘Your past conduct has caught up with you now.’
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