Toddler suffered two years of hell at hands of pervert
Sex beast is facing prison
A paedophile repeatedly sexually assaulted a toddler over two years at his dingy flat.
Hugh Sim, 30, even abused the little girl as she clutched her Iggle Piggle dolly.
Sickening films revealed the fiend continued to molest the tot on camera even as she begged “no”.
Sim was yesterday found guilty of repeatedly assaulting the tot and making and distributing indecent images during a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
Judge Johanna Johnston QC locked him up to protect the public and warned he faces a prison stint.
She explained: “You have been convicted of a number of serious sexual offences.
“You will be subject to the provisions of the Sex Offenders’ Register.
“It is not appropriate for you to be at liberty.”
Sim – who started attacking the girl when she was just three – looked shocked as he was handcuffed and led down to the cells.
He had originally been charged with raping the girl, but that charge was withdrawn by the Crown.
The court earlier heard he made vile photos and movies of the youngster in the living room and toilet of his flat in Renfrew.
He was snared after police brought down a social media group used to swap sex abuse images in New Zealand.
Pictures and videos recovered showed Sim tugging at the tot’s nightie as she pleads with him to stop.
In another, she is forced to pout with her finger to her lips.
Hi s e x- g i r l f r iend 24, fought tears as she identified his privates in photographs and movies taken in the flat.
She said: “I saw Hugh’s penis and hand.
“I know it’s his, I know what his looks like, I was with him for six years.”
She insisted a man’s voice heard in the clips belonged to her former partner.
But she insisted there was “nothing to give any suspicion” he was abusing the girl between September 2013 and October 2015.
Detective Constable Christopher Hughes, 37, visited the property during an indecent images probe and recognised the interior from seized material.
He said: “She was quite a small child, I would say approximately four or five, with a slim build and fair skin.
“When I entered the living room, I immediately identified the wallpaper and decor as being the same as the images I had viewed from New Zealand.”
Officers told how the “unkempt” flat was strewn with mountains of clothing, including tracksuit bottoms, boxers and socks worn by the creep when he molested the girl on camera
Sim used a black LG smartphone gifted to him by his girlfriend for his birthday three years ago to take some of the photographs and videos.
He was arrested after a social media group sharing child sex abuse images was taken down in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Paedophile Drew Webb, who was just 18 when he was caught, ran the group and was caught with material linked to the flat in Renfrew.
Police raided Sim’s home after internet provider Talk Ta l k confirmed a unique IP address used to register a Kik Messenger profile found with the pictures originated there.
The jur y of nine women and six men took around three hours to unanimously convict him on five charges, including sexual assault, forcing the girl into sexual activity and taking and distributing indecent images.
He will be sentenced on June 20. Police have appealed for witnesses after two cars and a van had their windows smashed and valuables stolen from inside.
Crooks used bricks to break the passenger windows in all three vehicles before making off with a watch and a wallet containing cash.
Cops investigating the damage – which took place in Castle Gait and Turners Avenue between Monday night and Tuesday morning – have still to establish what was stolen from the van.
A 56-year-old man had a distinctive £300 Adidas watch taken from his car in Castle Gait. Cops revealed it had a white face and green dial.
While a wallet containing a small amount of cash was stolen from the car – owned by a 28-year-old man – in Turner’s Avenue in town.
Paisley Inspector Tracy Harkins last night said: “The three incidents are similar in that it appears a rock was used to break the passenger side windows before valuables were stolen from inside.
“They took place between 11pm on Monday and 11am on Tuesday and I would ask anyone who was in the area at the time who may have spotted suspicious activity to contact police on 101.