MAN FANTASISED ABOUT SNATCHING BOY AND MAKING HIM SEX SLAVE
ODLIN TOLD OFFICERS HE HAD ENGAGED IN ‘CHAT’ WITH OTHER PAEDOPHILES
A GRIMSBY man told police he fantasised about snatching a young boy from the streets, taking him away and forcing him to be a sex slave.
Robert Odlin, 43, of Cooper Road in Grimsby, had his home raided by Humberside Police in September last year after they received intelligence about him. Odlin was not at home but officers were let into his house and seized a telephone.
He was called and told to attend Birchin Way police station, which he did.
Despite at first denying anything would be on the phone, Odlin requested a second interview where he made a set of sickening admissions.
Claire Holmes, prosecuting, told Grimsby Crown Court on Thursday that Odlin told officers he had engaged in “chat” with other paedophiles and requested their help in snatching a boy off the streets. She said: “The chat messages were extremely concerning. “He said: ‘I like boys between seven and 14. I’ve never had one but would like to rape one.’ “He asked another person: ‘Would you consider kidnapping one if you had help? Are you sure I can’t tempt you.’
“The other person declined and he said: ‘I’d love to keep one as a sex slave’. ”
Odlin later told police he was having dark thoughts of snatching a boy on his way home from school, taking him away and forcing him to participate in sexual activity with him.
Ms Holmes said: “He was interviewed again and said he has an interest in children and was trying to control his urges but was finding it hard. He said he lived between a secondary school and a primary school and on a route taken by children on their way to and from school.”
Odlin told police they would find “thousands” of indecent images on the phone they had found at his home, and another. However, analysis was conducted and police could only find two category A images and three category C images that were inaccessible.
They did find 14 category C images and one prohibited image of a child that they could access. Odlin told police that in 2013 he had exchanged sexualised messages with a young boy.
He said he requested the boy to send pictures of his penis, and sent pictures of his own to him. He said the chat only stopped because the boy had been caught, but he had made attempts to meet him and said if the chat had not stopped, he would have gone through with the meeting and had sexual activity with the boy.
Richard Lunn, mitigating, told the court Odlin is not as dangerous as other offenders with a sexual interest in children as he knows he has a problem. He said: “The probation service say he is not suitable for the sex offenders’ treatment programme as he is low risk so he can be dealt with by rehabilitation days. “You will be aware that the people who pass as the most dangerous are those that can’t accept they have an issue. This defendant appreciates he has one and had been thinking dark thoughts and presented himself to a police station. He wished for a further interview to tell the police about this. “He is a man that has struggled with his sexuality. He is now settled and in a homosexual relationship. He has the support of his family and his former partner and adult children. They are aware that he is here.”
Odlin will be sentenced at Grimsby Crown Court on April 9.
This defendant appreciates he had been thinking dark thoughts and presented himself to police