The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Daughter wants to live with paedophile
Devastated father speaks out over case which is destroying him inside
The heartbroken father of a teenage girl who was groomed by a German paedophile has spoken of his devastation at his daughter’s desire to live with the predator after he is freed from jail.
Uwe Kaiser, now 49, was locked up for two years in January after flying 600 miles to Scotland to meet the schoolgirl when she was just 15.
The illicit meeting happened after Kaiser lied about his age to mask the 32-year gap between them as he befriended the impressionable youngster over the internet.
And while her 53-year-old father assumed she was merely in contact with school friends about harmless gossip and homework, she was actually being groomed methodically by Kaiser, who has two children of his own.
As Kaiser gradually won her confidence, he began to swap increasingly sexual messages and images with her on the WhatsApp messaging service, popular with many teenagers. They also had long conversations on Skype.
Now the girl’s father, who brought his daughter up as a single parent from the age of three months after splitting from her mother, has spoken for the first time about a case which many would see as every parent’s nightmare.
To his great distress, not only has the girl moved out of the family flat, she insists she is in love with Kaiser and hopes to set up home with him when he comes out of prison.
The father, who can’t be named for legal reasons, said: “She was such a content, happy child – until this scumbag turned up in our lives.”
Angrily, he condemned the two-year sentence handed down to Kaiser which means he could be out as soon as the end of the year thanks to early release rules – leaving him free to renew his relationship with the girl, now 17.
Describing the paedophile’s actions as “criminal and despicable”, he added: “She’s just a child to him. She’s not a grown-up adult.”
He baulked at any suggestion his daughter, who is now living alone in a council flat in Perth, is genuinely in love with Kaiser.
“This is not love,” he insisted. “You don’t love someone like that. You don’t manipulate a child and brainwash them and tell them you love them.”
After grooming her online, eventually, Kaiser convinced the teenager to leave home and start a new life with him in Germany.
It’s encouraging paedophiles to carry on their crimes in society. Two years for destroying a child’s life and destroying a family ...
On December 18 2015, he flew from Frankfurt to Edinburgh and made his way to Perthshire to meet the girl in the early hours of the morning.
The pair then boarded an overnight bus to London.
After the teenager handed herself in to a police station near London’s Victoria Bus Station, Kaiser was arrested. Scores of indecent images were found on their phones. But while the girl was rescued and brought home by her dad, worse was still to come.
Far from being relieved at the end of the ordeal, the youngster revealed she had fallen for Kaiser and wanted to resume her relationship with him after he was freed from prison.
“The main thing here that hurts me is the lenient sentence that this man got. That sentence needs to be reviewed.
“It’s encouraging paedophiles to carry on their crimes in society. Two years for destroying a child’s life and destroying a family environment?
“He will serve 16 months and then he’ll be out. I feel betrayed by the system.”
The girl’s father worked a series of jobs, most recently as a handyman, in order to make ends meet while bringing her up.
He now insists life can never go back to normal after what happened.
“She’s been out with him several times in the local area, and they were shopping in Perth while he was on bail. There’s nothing I can do. She’s over 16 now.”