Spain’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld the 135-year prison sentence of a British teacher and nanny who created and distributed pornography of children in his care after changing his name and country following previous convictions.
Ben David Rose has legally changed his identity following his conviction on child pornography charges in Britain, meaning he did not appear as a registered sex offender during background checks in Spain.
Rose, formerly known as Ben David Lewis, received a two-year suspended sentence in June 2016 for child pornography offenses in the English town of St. albans. In August of the same year, with a new name and passport, he worked as a nanny in the Spanish city of Zaragoza.
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Rose then moved to Madrid and there worked as a nanny for two more young children before taking a job teaching English at a private school.
A nanny and teacher has been sentenced to 135 years in prison for creating and distributing child pornography of children in her care. The Supreme Court of Spain upheld the sentence. (Fox News)
Later, when police searched his phone, they found dozens of photos and videos of him with girls as young as 6 inside a classroom. Rose was also convicted of photographing three children under the age of 10 naked or in their underwear and distributing the images on the dark web from her time as a nanny in Zaragoza.
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The Supreme Court on Friday upheld Rose’s conviction and sentencing in a lower court for child pornography offenses, dozens of offenses linked to the disclosure of secrets and a single conviction for “a crime against moral integrity.”
The verdict on her appeal comes at a time of heightened scrutiny for private schools in Spain, as police investigate how a lunch monitor at a French school in Barcelona was able to initiate sexual contact with children as young as 5.
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British activists, including the charity The Safeguarding Alliance, are lobbying the UK government to change the law on name changes.
“Existing laws allow offenders to bypass the system, free to conceal their identity without being monitored,” the charity said.
