WARNING: Disturbing content discussing child sexual abuse.
A twisted couple’s vile fantasies are exposed after they lure a cognitively impaired boy into their home with drugs to film themselves sexually assaulting him for five years.
Julia Ann Bamforth, 49, and Paul Robert Bamforth, 50, have pleaded guilty to 146 charges in connection with the young boy’s appalling ongoing sexual abuse on the NSW Central Coast.
They admitted luring the neurodivergent child home with the promise of drugs to sexually assault him and film the exploitation for their sexual gratification.
Julia and Paul Bamforth have pleaded guilty to nearly 150 charges related to persistent sexual abuse of a cognitively impaired boy. Photo: Facebook
Videos filmed by the pedophile couple document the sexual abuse from when the victim was about 12 years old, but the victim told police the sexual abuse began when he was just seven years old.
He said he was bribed with a plethora of free drugs to engage in sexual acts with the married couple over a period of at least five years.
“I didn’t want to, but I had to,” the boy said in a police interview.
“I used to get free weed, free ice, free MDMA (Paul), for… to root his wife.”
The court documents show that the Bamforths knew the child had a cognitive disability and cruelly referred to him as “the idiot.”
Police discovered numerous texts between the accomplices revealing the sexual satisfaction they received from sexually assaulting the pre-pubescent victim.
In one of the messages to her husband, Julia wrote that she wanted to get pregnant by the “ugly little idiot” so that they could “molest the child or children.”
Court documents show that they lured the boy into their home with drugs. Photo: Facebook
In notes on Paul’s phone, Julia reiterated her wish to bear a child who could be sexually abused by the couple from a young age.
The court documents show there were about 300 notes of a similar nature – some up to 2,500 words long – discussing the couple’s desire to have sex with young children.
In one of the posts highlighted by police, Julia and Paul reveal a fantasy of taking in homeless or needy children who would then sexually abuse them.
According to the court documents, the couple even went so far as to discuss kidnapping children to satisfy their sick sexual urges.
The Bamforths’ years of brutality to the victim was documented on home video revealed when police raided their home in Narara on February 26, 2021.
Seven hard drives were found hidden in a shoe box in a closet and taped to the underside of the bedside table, according to the agreed facts.
The pair then videotaped themselves engaging in sexual acts with the boy, according to court documents. Photo: Facebook
The hard drives contained more than 90 videos of the couple engaging in sexual acts with the victim from a time when he was estimated to be between 10 and 13 years old.
One of the videos shows Julia performing oral sex on the victim when he was about 12 while asleep and oblivious, according to the facts.
The court documents show that the couple kept a folder on their computer called “my little c*** lover” in which they stored some of the child sexual abuse material, including compilation videos of various sexual acts involving the victim involved.
In some of the videos, Paul can be heard instructing and encouraging sexual acts between his wife and the victim as he films the abuse.
The Bamforths can also be seen giving the victim illegal drugs, including an ice pipe, in multiple videos described in the court documents.
Police note that in a video of the victim having sex with Julia, he appears to be “heavily under the influence of drugs.”
The police seized a zombie sword from the Bamforths’ home in Narara. Photo: NSW Police
Officers also discovered a large number of drugs in Narara’s home. Photo: NSW Police
When the victim was 16 years old, the Bamforths were arrested and the sexual abuse stopped.
A few days before their arrest, the victim told two friends about the ongoing abuse and called Paul a “paedophile.”
Paul arranged for the victim to be taken to the Bamforths’ home, where he was then beaten bloody.
According to the court documents, he was kicked and punched several times and forced to strip naked before being put in the trunk of a car.
The victim told police he overheard his attackers talking to take him to a nearby vantage point, but he managed to escape when the car stopped at some traffic lights.
Julia was not charged with involvement in the kidnapping.
The police raid revealed a stash of weapons in the Bamforths’ home. Photo: NSW Police
The police also seized a large amount of money. Photo: NSW Police
Julia admitted to a whopping 78 offenses related to the sickening sexual abuse of children, while Paul pleaded guilty to 68 charges.
Both were charged with more than 20 counts of aggravated sexual intercourse with a child, as well as numerous allegations of aggravated assault on a victim with cognitive impairment, and using a child to produce child sexual abuse material.
The sickening child sexual abuse couple will be convicted of their combined 146 crimes later this year.