An elderly Normanton Paedophile music instructor, Paul Moxon, engaged in masturbation during online classes for children and then employed advanced computer software to superimpose students’ heads into sexual scenarios.
Distorted Seventy-year-old Paul Moxon conducted freelance classes from his residence in the Wakefield region utilising the Zoom meeting platform. However, he was exposed when a shocked student observed that he had lowered his trousers during one of her lessons.
She subsequently observed him engaging in a sexual act on himself. The youth believed he had engaged in the act previously but had earlier concealed his genitals with the musical instrument he was instructing, stated prosecutor Gerald Hendron at Leeds Crown Court.
The girl informed her parents, prompting a call to the police. Paul Moxon was apprehended, and internet devices along with hard drives were confiscated. They discovered over 1,000 illicit indecent photographs categorised as Category A – the most severe – and Category B.
Moreover, they discovered recordings of online courses including students, from which Paul Moxon subsequently overlaid still photographs of the minors into sexual scenarios involving himself. He incorporated audio recordings of the victims’ voices during classes into the abhorrent scenes.
Mr Hendron suggested that pupils were coerced into saying certain words that could be construed as sexually suggestive, in order for him to place them into his sick videos and fuel his sexual gratification. It was eventually found that there were several other victims.
The court heard that Paul Moxon had masturbated in front of the victims on multiple occasions. He was not affiliated to teaching at any schools in the area.
Paul Moxon, of Wakefield Road, Normanton, gave no comments during two police interviews. He later admitted eight counts of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, and two of making indecent images.
Paul Moxon has no previous convictions and never been caught before, but his defence barrister Satpal Roth-Sharma said that he has accepted he had thrown away his long and distinguished career as a music tutor.
She said: “These are serious offences and he was a teacher in a position of trust which he wholly abused. He has had a shining career and one has to wonder what has triggered this. He has no previous convictions, he has never even had a speeding ticket in his life.
“Regrettably, his sexual behaviour has led to this, and he does not seek to avoid accepting that. He has become separated from his family and loneliness has played a part.”
The judge, Recorder David Gordon told Paul Moxon: “This is extremely serious sexual offending, this was an abuse of trust. You were trusted by the parents of these children to help teach them music.”
He said of the superimposed images: “You are somebody with computer skills who manipulated those images for your own sexual gratification.”
He jailed Paul Moxon for three years and gave him a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) designed to monitor his internet use and ban him from contact with children. The order will last for life, while he will also be on the sex offenders register for life.
Paul Moxon is also barred from ever teaching young people again.
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