A paedophile who made payments to live stream and direct the sexual abuse of children in the Philippines has been jailed for 15 years.

Cesar Cordero Conejo, from Ilford, was investigated after being identified as a UK-based offender obtaining child sexual abuse material and live streamed child sexual abuse from a Filipino woman.

Information regarding the 39-year-old, from between September 2022 and February 2023, was provided to the UK.

This included several message exchanges between him and the woman, which were provided by Homeland Security in the US.

In one message, she told Conejo that she is giving birth but doesn't have money to go to hospital, to which he replied: "Well good luck ok, hope you have another girl."

Later in the chat he asked her to get the children to carry out sex acts on each other.

In further messages, Conejo indicated that he wanted to travel to the Philippines to rape one of the children himself, saying that he'd pay the woman 100 dollars a day in return.

NCA investigators arrested Conejo in July 2023 and conducted searches of his home, seizing a number of devices, including a laptop and phone.

Forensic examination of the devices revealed they contained in excess of 12,500 indecent images of children, including 4,706 in the most severe category A.

Further chat records between him and various Filipino women dating back six years were also identified. One message stated: "Do you have PayPal darling.

“I wanted to see your daughter today."

Financial enquiries showed that he had sent several Filipino women a total of £1,300 over the course of six years.

At least 16 of these payments were linked to one woman who abused children known to her, for financial gain.

A number of child victims were rescued and safeguarded in the Philippines, including three in relation to this case.

These three children would have been aged between five and 13 at the time of the offending.

The imagery obtained from the Filipino woman included category A images (the most severe) involving penetration with a number of objects, and oral rape.

The youngest rape victim was only two to three years old and was directed to perform sexual acts with others.

In custody, he was charged with causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child under the age of 13.

He was later charged with further counts of causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child, offences relating to making indecent images of children, possessing indecent images of children and possessing an extreme pornographic image.

He pleaded guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court on January 4 and was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment at the same court on Thursday (October 17).

He will also become a Registered Sex Offender for life and was given a 20-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.