March 2010 Dear mum, I hate him so much… I want justice A TERRIFIED little girl helped nail a pervert who’d taken naked snaps of her — by writing a plea for help saying: “I hate him, I want justice.” Twisted Keith Ballantyne, 63, had repeatedly forced the youngster to pose for sickening photos when she was aged just ten. But his victim went through two years of secret anguish before she was finally able to tell of her ordeal in a harrowing letter to her mother. Courage … girl wrote letter to snare perv The girl wrote: “Mum, this is so, so hard to write. I’m sorry I kept it bottled up so long. “It makes me cry to sleep most of the time. “I want justice. It makes me feel dirty sometimes. Please keep him away from me. I hate him so much.” Her abuser was later arrested, and cops found a computer stash of 13,000 vile child porn images at his cottage in Glen Lethnot, Angus. The brave girl’s anguished letter was read out at Forfar Sheriff court last week, as oilworker Ballantyne was jailed for 45 months. Prosecutor Arthur Wheelan told how the girl and her younger sister stayed at Ballantyne’s house for sleepovers. They would watch videos until the younger girl fell asleep. On several occasions Ballantyne then paid the older girl to pose naked. Mr Wheelan said: “She was scared that if she didn’t do as he asked he would turn to her little sister, and she didn’t want that to happen.” The fiend snapped the ten-year-old in revealing positions on his bed and asked her to watch a porn film. He once exposed himself in a video and showed this to the girl. Ballantyne — who has a wife and kids in Canada — works around the world. But cops arrested him when he returned home last November. The beast pleaded guilty to making the girl pose naked from May to August 2007 and other child porn offences. Sheriff Kevin Veal said: “The vulnerable victim now shows a reluctance to go out, finds it difficult to cope at school and suffers tearful bedtimes. “What he did was disgraceful.” Ballantyne is now on the sex offenders’ register and will be put on licence for three years after release.