Paedophile teacher jailed for rape

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Neil Challis sat expressionless in the dock at Derby Crown Court as a judge gave him an indeterminate sentence and told him to serve a minimum of seven years behind bars.

The 35-year-old from Chester Green, Derby, was arrested in January after his eight-year-old rape victim, who was not one of his pupils, told her parents.

Police searched his home and found hundreds of indecent images of young girls on his computer, some in the very worst "grade five" category. A number of the images were of his sex attacks.

Challis, who taught at 13 schools across Derbyshire, had used a camera to secretly take pictures of some of the pupils he taught, the court heard.

After his arrest, he admitted six charges of rape and four charges of indecent assault of a child.

He also pleaded guilty to charges of taking indecent pictures of a child and the possession of 1,000 indecent images of a child.

Sentencing Challis, Judge Rosalind Bush told him: "The offences that you have committed and for which I am about to sentence you were despicable, particularly in relation to (the young rape victim).

"You made sure that you got yourself into such a position of trust with her family where she was available to you at all times, whenever you wanted sexual gratification.

"There was nowhere in her life where she was safe from you. You were everywhere and abusing her everywhere, in her home, in your home. There was nowhere she was safe from you. There was no refuge. You corrupted everything in her life and when you started she was only five years old."