Rapper jailed for 16 years for sex with children

hackney
A paedophile ‘gangsta rapper’ who filmed himself having sex with underage schoolgirls after grooming them on social media was jailed 16 years today (FRI).
Daniel Rodriguez, known as Grymey D, contacted thousands of vulnerable children online using Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and Blackberry Messenger.
The 28 year-old sexually exploited five girls after inviting them to the house that he shared with his parents and sister in Hackney, east London.
But detectives fear there are many more victims after it emerged he had sent thousands of friend requests to children though social media between 2012 and 2015.
Prosecutor Edward Lucas told Wood Green Crown Court: ‘This defendant is a predator.
‘He preyed on young vulnerable girls around the age of 13-14.
‘He used his experience, his charm, his guile and by force, not psychological or physical force but the force of his personality to force these young girls, for many of whom this was their first sexual experience, to engage in his own perverted sexual activities.
‘They were planned, he sent out messages after trawling social media to find girls to indulge his sexual fantasies. He was abusing children.’
Rodriguez’ ‘modus operandi’ involved befriending ‘vulnerable’ girls on social media, complimenting their appearance and telling them he loved them.
He then ‘trawled’ their friend lists for more young girls to abuse, inviting them to his ‘studio’ after they showed interest in his music career.
Following his arrest last August 27 police officers found videos of Rodriguez having sex with four of the victims – three aged 14 and one aged 15.
His phone and USB drives also contained videos of Rodriguez having sex with men.
Rodriguez befriended one of the girls on Instagram when she was just 13 and they first had sex at his house when she was 14.
He also requested that the girl bring a friend that he had seen on her Facebook profile
Rodriguez filmed much of the abuse, some of which happened when the girls were together.
A 14 year-old girl revealed how she met Rodriguez in the park but they had to hide when he saw his sister walk past.
He told the girl that he would ‘get in serious trouble if this gets out’.
Rodriguez told another victim that she had to tip toe as his mother was in the house.
But his abuse quickly escalated from kissing to sex and became more and more demeaning over time.
In one video he is seen urinating in a 14 year-old girls face.
In another video a girl can be heard saying: ‘Please I don’t want to, I don’t like it.’
Rodriguez can be heard encouraging and coercing her from behind the camera.
He also had sex with two other girls after meeting them in the street in Hackney and contacting them on Blackberry Messenger.
Rodriguez admitted creating an indecent image of a sixth girl, aged 15, who did not want to be interviewed by police.
A seventh girl was not interviewed by police but appears in one of the videos, the court heard.
All of the girls were described as ‘vulnerable’ and two of them were in care at the time.
Charles Evans, defending Rodriguez, claimed that Rodriguez was interested in sex rather than young girls themselves and ‘didn’t know how serious his actions were.’
But judge Joanna Greenberg QC said: ‘If he put his mind to it he must have appreciated how damaging this was he just did not care.
‘He must be blind and living as a hermit not to realise. He just couldn’t help it.’
Judge Greenberg pointed to the many examples of recent celebrity cases in the media that Rodriguez could have known about where young girls were targeted by older men in prominent positions.
‘Sometimes it is pop singers, sometimes it is disc jockeys. These men, at the time in their 20s, were having sex with young teenage girls,’ said the judge.
Sentencing Rodriguez, Judge Greenberg said: ‘You set out to recruit them to exploit them sexually.
‘I have no doubt you deliberately targeted girls you knew were underage.
‘Your modus operandi makes it clear to me that your desire for them was because they were young girls.
‘You deliberately targeted young vulnerable girls to enable you to play out your deviant sexual fantasies.’
Rodriguez, wearing a buttoned up red and black check with long hair tied back in a plait a neatly groomed goatee remained emotionless during the sentence.
Judge Greenberg also highlighted the long-term guilt, shame and ‘lifelong degradation’ felt by victims of child sexual abuse.
She said: ‘I conclude that you do present a significant risk of causing serious psychological harm to young girls.’
Rodriguez, of Thrasher Close, Hackney, admitted five counts of sexual activity with a child, one of sexual assault, three counts of attempting to cause a child to engage in sexual activity, one count of attempting to coerce a child aged 13-15 into sexual activity and five of creating an indecent image of a child.
He was given an indefinite sexual harm prevention order preventing him from having contact with under 16s and using social media.