By Tony O’Riley-
The father of one of the children living with a convicted paedophile was seriously angered after social services refused to tell him whether one of his children living with paedophile Stuart Sargent in 2017 had featured in any of Sargent’s dark web.
This affected the mental state of Vince Godwin, 39, who at the time found it suspicious that social services declined to provide him with any information relating to his daughter who had lived with a paedophile later jailed for catfishing.
Stuart Sargent was jailed for three years after using a female’s friend’s profile picture to pose as a woman abusing her own 7 year old daughter to encourage other perverts into sending him child abuse images. After sending images of the woman’s little girl to perverts to encourage child abuse, he admitted possessing 139 of the most serious category A images, which showed adults raping children as young as four.
Mr Sargeant also admitted possession of 211 category B images, which involved children as young as two in addition to the possession of 134 category C images and 34 extreme images involving animals. All three children living with Sargeant throughout his demented activities were under 10 years of age. One of them was the child of mr.Godwin, and it drove him crazy.
Convicted Paedophile: Mr Sargeant
Social Services
Social services at the time refused to satisfy mr.Godwin’s request, on the grounds he had no parental responsibility over his child, with whom he had next to no contact at the time.
Only parents with parental responsibility over their children are entitled to obtain information about them from social services. However, living with the suspicion that a paedophile caught with photos and videos of child abuse was living with your child is something that would offend the minds of most parents, whether or not they are with their child.
Affecting him most was why the mother of the child did not engage him on that question when asked. Mr Godwin, a keen researcher on ufos and a developer, expected to know if his daughter had been affected at all by the peadophile. The father of three to different mothers, was said to have gone through bouts of anxiety which made him prone to being highly agitated.
Examination
The historical case was closely examined during a meeting assessing how mr.Godwin could recklessly breach his contract with this organisation after the website developer, abused his access to this site’s backend by allegedly removing meta tags from the site and pulling the site off google.
Mr.Godwin did this when he realised he was being sacked for failing to fulfil his duties and being rude an arrogant when pulled up on it. The last straw for the developer when when he was told he would be exposed on the very site he once promoted articles and conducted research unless he removed all reference to the site from his facebook page.
”I have the right to be forgotten from google’, he said in an angry response. A few hours later, the site was off google for the first time in 7 years, even though he had no access to the site at that time.
Mental Health
Some members of the team called for a closer look at his mental health over the last few years in assessing whether court action should beb taken against him. Most members believe it inexcusable for a man of his age to act in the manner he did, and conclude him to be mentally fit enough to know what he was doing. Mr.Godwin himself categorically said his mental health had improved a lot before his senseless act.
Most insulting were comments he made to a female member of the team that no judge would ask him to pay any damages because he is currently unemployed.
Lawyers consulted on the matter say mr.Godwin could still be made to pay damages in stages from his benefits, and any court action issued against him would be a matter of principle.
Insomnia
The father of three admitted he suffered from insomnia on many nights, in the process waking up at odd times, leading to internal disputes over his availability.
Mr Godwin admitted suffering from anxiety over what he considered to be a massive failing in the system, part of which he blamed social services for. On top of that, the police professionals standards initially attempted to block a full report into why Sargent was bailed three doors away from three little kids.
They claimed Mr Godwin’s application had exceeded the time limit for their investigation, but it wasn’t until he made clear that he discovered of the news late, before they pursued an investigation, and eventually produced a report. The report was never published on this site, but that was an editorial decision.
The team has been split as to whether to pursue a civil claim against him, but it appears one might family be made this week for the sake of principle, and for him to learn that contracts exist to be honoured and respected.
Mr.Godwin’s past is the subject of analysis by psychologists to give a clearer picture of the man.