‘Twisted sex monster’ injected boys’ genitals
FORMER CHURCH MINISTER SENT TO PRISON FOR 13-AND-A-HALF YEARS
A JUDGE branded a former church minister who injected teenagers in the genitals for his own ‘twisted’ gratification a ‘sexual monster.’
John Beaumont, 58, was yesterday sentenced to 13-and-a-half years in prison for the sexual abuse, which happened after he convinced his three victims they suffered radiation poisoning following the Chernobyl disaster.
In a victim impact statement, one of the victims said Beaumont can ‘rot in hell.’
After being arrested, Beaumont denied the abuse and branded the victims ‘liars’ and said they lived in ‘fantasy land.’
Beaumont, a former minister in Scotland, told his victims he was medically trained and had been instructed by the military to do medical examinations on them to test for radiation poisoning. He has two previous convictions in Scotland for injecting children with needles, a sentencing hearing at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
Police said that, during his latest crimes, Beaumont used the syringes ‘under the guise of taking samples’ while it’s believed one victim was injected with water.
Prosecuting, Michael Brady said two of the victims who were injected were minors when the offences started, aged between 16 and 18, and a third was an adult.
Beaumont told them they were on a secret list of people who may have been infected after the Chernobyl disaster, a nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine which has led to thousands of people getting cancer.
The victims said the examinations were embarrassing, frightening and painful.
His offending, which happened more than 20 years ago, caught up with him after the now-adult victims made statements to police.
In interview after being arrested in 2015, Beaumont denied the abuse.
He admitted his guilt on the day of a proposed trial, pleading guilty to nine counts of indecent assault and one count of causing actual bodily harm.
In victim impact statements, one victim said: “He deserves to rot in hell as far as I’m concerned.”
Defending, Virginia Hayton said that Beaumont had showed a ‘good side,’ having cared for his elderly mother who is ill.
Beaumont, of Byron Road, Greenmount, Bury, will serve a further two-anda-half years on licence after serving his prison sentence, and will only be released if the parole board deems it safe to do so.
The judge described him as a ‘sexual monster’ whose abuse took a ‘similar and sinister form.’