MAN WITH TOE FETISH GETS SUSPENDED SENTENCE

Date: 18th September 2009

A wheelchair-bound man painted the toenails of young girls and used his mobile phone to film himself sucking their feet.

Zolly Littlechild, a 49-year-old paraplegic, stored the videos on his computer along with thousands of images of girls, some as young as six, in provocative poses.

When police raided his flat in Harpenden, Herts, they also discovered 36 bottles of nail varnish, St Albans crown court heard last Tuesday.

Littlechild was given a suspended 12 month prison sentence by Judge Marie Catterson.

She told him one of the conditions of the sentence was that he was now prohibited from painting the toenails of any child under 18.

Prosecutor Ann Evans said the victims had been allowed into his flat by their parents to watch television. She said they had let Littlechild paint their toenails unaware of his "foot fetish."

She said: "His physical disabilities lulled them into a false sense of security about his motives towards these little girls."

One victim, now aged 10, was told not to tell anyone what he did as the police would put him in prison. He videoed her putting both her big toes in his mouth.

While he was sucking the feet of one young girl she asked if she could play with her Polly Pocket now. He told her: "In a minute." Another girl, who is now 13, was told "You get your stars for that."

Balding Littlechild, now of Cardinal Avenue, Borehamwood, pleaded guilty to four charges of sexual assault, one of inciting a child to perform a sexual act, and possessing indecent images of children.

Mrs Evans said that on his computer the police found 125 home movies Littlechild had made of his own activities with the children. There were also 18,394 indecent images of children. The vast majority were at Level One, the lowest level - depicting young girls in provocative poses. The other 547 were at Level 2.

Defence barrister Maria Dineen said: "Mr Littlechild is deeply ashamed of his conduct and has shown genuine remorse for the effect his conduct has had on the little girls and their families." She said that a prison sentence for Littlechild would be difficult because of the nature of the offences and his disability.

Passing sentence Judge Catterson "It's quite apparent you have what is called a foot fetish".

She said sucking the youngsters' toes for his own mental sexual gratification had been entirely wrong.

"It was an abuse and exploitative behaviour of young children," said the judge.

The case was made worse, she said, because there was a breach of trust of the parents who had, in some cases, put themselves out to help Littlechild.

He was given a 12 month prison sentence suspended for two years and told he will be under the supervision of the probation service during that time

The judge also made a Sexual Offence Prevention Order which prohibits Littlechild from having any unsupervised access with a child under 18 and painting the toenails of any child

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