{"id":4894,"date":"2010-10-12T14:16:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/10\/12\/man-admits-abusing-girl-in-india\/"},"modified":"2010-10-12T14:16:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:16:36","slug":"man-admits-abusing-girl-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/12\/man-admits-abusing-girl-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Man admits abusing girl in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Barry McCloud \u2018befriended\u2019 poor family in Goa to carry out sickening attacks<\/h3>\n<div><strong>A MAN has admitted a series of sex offences after abusing a girl in India, police said.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Barry McCloud has pleaded guilty to raping a child under 13 and administering a stupefying drug to his victim to abuse her, Hertfordshire Police said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The force said the case was the first time in Hertfordshire that someone had been charged with sexually abusing a child who lives overseas.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Police said McCloud, from Watford, befriended the girl&#8217;s family in Goa and took advantage of their vulnerability, abusing her on a number of occasions when he travelled to India. The offences date back to 2005-2007.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 53-year-old has pleaded guilty to a series of offences at St Albans Crown Court and will be sentenced at a later date.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Hertfordshire Police said they led the probe, supported by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and a non-government agency in India called Justice and Care.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>CPS District Crown Prosecutor Tamsyn Wilcox said: &#8220;Barry McCloud abused the trust of a family living in extreme poverty in Goa.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;He befriended and sponsored the eldest son, and he used his position of trust to gain access to one of the younger sisters, the victim in this case.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>She continued: &#8220;McCloud was charged under Section 72 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 which allows prosecutors to charge a person with an offence committed abroad if they are a British citizen or resident, and the crime would be an offence in the country in which it is committed, as well as here.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Detective Inspector Paul Doran, senior investigating officer, said the investigation had secured safety and justice for the victim but also reassurance that &#8220;this dangerous predator no longer poses a risk within our community&#8221;.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry McCloud \u2018befriended\u2019 poor family in Goa to carry out sickening attacks A MAN has admitted a series of sex offences after abusing a girl in India, police said. &#13; Barry McCloud has pleaded guilty to raping a child under 13 and administering a stupefying drug to his victim to abuse her, Hertfordshire Police said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}