A mechanic who created and moderated sites dedicated to child sexual abuse on the dark web with an Indian-origin doctor and several others working for him, has been jailed for 16 years in the UK.
Nathan Bake, 28, from Cheshire, was one of three UK-based moderators of a site called ‘The Annex’, and worked with around 30 staff members to enforce the site’s rules and ensure it continued to run smoothly.
He was sentenced on Wednesday at Chester Crown Court to 16 years imprisonment, placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life, and given a lifetime Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
As the head moderator, Bake was second in command of The Annex, which is no longer active, and had around 90,000 global members who used it to share and discuss some of the most extreme kinds of abuse material, involving ‘hurtcore’ and the sexual abuse of babies and toddlers.