November 2008 Paedophile jailed indefinitely A PAEDOPHILE who was caught on a webcam sexually abusing a toddler has been jailed indefinitely by a judge at Leeds Crown Court. Terence Bower, 30, of Newlands Drive, Morley, abused the two-year-old girl for up to a year. The court heard the toddler had to undergo an operation after contracting a sexually transmitted disease from him. Her father had activated a webcam behind her cot when Bower went to the upstairs toilet while visiting their home in Leeds on January 31 last year because he suspected he was using drugs. He was horrified to discover the images of abuse on viewing the 13-minute long footage after Bower had left the house. Bower, who works for a paint manufacturer in Morley, was caught on camera abusing the girl in the bathroom and a bedroom while furtively glancing behind him to check he wouldn’t be caught. After the girl’s family alerted police she was examined at St James’s Hospital and discovered to have suffered injuries consistent with repeated sexual abuse over many months. After a week-long trial in September a Leeds Crown Court jury convicted Bower of two counts of child sex assault and one charge of attempted child sex assault. Jailing Bower for the public’s protection, Judge Kerry Macgill said he would serve a minimum eight years in prison and would only be released when he was no longer deemed a danger. Judge Macgill told him: “It’s an appalling crime. She couldn’t talk, she couldn’t tell anyone what this man was doing to her so she had to suffer it time after time.”