House of horrors: Inside the tiny den where a monster care worker kept a woman with severe learning difficulties as his sex slave and paid her in QUALITY STREET
- Domestic prison, in Craigavon, County Armagh, has since been re-decorated
- But had a bare floor and no light during woman's imprisonment by Keith Baker
- Baker, 61, one-time care worker, 'paid' victim sweets for having depraved sex
This is the tiny room where monster Keith Baker kept a woman with severe learning difficulties as his sex slave for years.
The
domestic prison, in Craigavon, County Armagh, has since been
re-decorated, but had a bare floor and no light during her imprisonment.
Baker, 61, a one-time care worker, 'paid' his victim Quality Street sweets for having depraved sex with him and others.
The room, in Craigavon, County Armagh, has since been re-decorated, but had a bare floor and no light during her imprisonment
He
filmed dozens of unknown men raping her in the room then 'rewarded' her
with boxes of chocolates and sweets if she had been 'good'.
'She
told police she did what Baker told her because she was terrified of
him but also because he gave her sweets,' said a source.
'She
even said her favourite was the purple one from the Quality Street box
and she would get that if she had been particularly good.
'Medical tests showed she only had one 'sound' tooth and that is why.'
Baker and his wife Caroline, 54, prevented her from ever leaving her tiny room by removing the handle on the inside of the door.
It is understood Baker met his victim in Britain and either invited or persuaded her to come to Northern Ireland.
Baker, 61, a one-time care worker, 'paid' his victim Quality Street sweets for having depraved sex with him and others
When her husband reported her missing in 2004, it seemed she had vanished without trace.
And she lacked the mental capacity to escape.
The
Bakers are due to be sentenced on Tuesday for a catalogue of appalling
sexual abuse committed at their specially adapted home which consisted
of two terrace houses knocked through to make one large home.
Baker's
wife Caroline was working as a care worker at a home in Northern
Ireland that specialises in mental health residents right up until she
was arrested.
The PSNI is understood to have conducted a thorough investigation into whether she may have abused anyone at the home.
The
chilling details of what really went on behind closed doors smack in
the middle of a Co. Armagh housing estate are still to come out.
Sex-mad Baker was a member of social dating site Badoo where he tried to meet women to satisfy his cravings.
He used the soft and cuddly profile name 'Keiffy Bear' to lure women into his trap.
Throughout police questioning Baker denied the allegations and claimed all the sex was consensual.
Baker and his wife Caroline, 54,
prevented her from ever leaving her tiny room by removing the handle on
the inside of the door. Pictured: The couple's house in Craigavon,
County Armagh
Witnesses told
police there was always strange men coming and going from the house and
after they seized tapes of unidentified men being filmed having sex with
the victim, detectives suspected Baker was pimping her out on the
internet.
He locked his mentally
disabled victim away for years in a tiny room - not allowing her to
leave or even see a dentist or doctor.
The room has been decorated since the victim was released from slavery.
When she was there the floor was bare and the light didn't work.
When
police finally rescued her, she weighed just six stone and her teeth
had rotted so badly from all the sweets and lack of dental care she only
had one sound tooth.
The sex slave,
who's believed to be in her 40s, was only rescued after another woman
who, like her, suffered from learning difficulties, raised the alarm
when she told a disability support worker that there was another woman
living at the house.
Baker filmed dozens of unknown men
raping her in the room then 'rewarded' her with boxes of chocolates and
sweets if she had been 'good'. Pictured: Inside the house
The
whistleblower, known in court as Miss X, was assessed as suffering
chronic post-traumatic stress and said she suffered 20 years of abuse
after starting a second family with Baker.
However, the PPS had decided there was not enough evidence to prosecute Keith Baker for those allegations.
Both
Miss X and Caroline Baker each had four children with Baker and the
creepy pad was divided into two sections - one for the women and one for
the men.
The victim lived in the squalid half and was allowed to shower only once a week, her 'toilet' was overflowing with human waste.
Keith
and Caroline pleaded guilty to a string of horrific sex offences
against the single woman who had been living at the property for nearly a
decade.
They admitted two charges of
engaging in sexual activity with a mentally disabled person and one of
enticing her into sexual activity knowing she was unlikely to refuse.
Keith Baker also confessed to six counts of rape of the same woman and a final count of indecently assaulting her.
His
wife pleaded guilty to three offences of 'aiding and abetting,
counselling and procuring' her husband to rape their victim and a single
count of indecent assault.
Baker, who is originally from Guernsey, started his life as a care worker and ended up owning a hotel along with his brother.
Baker - pictured as a younger man -
groomed his victim in England and, concerned he would be caught by the
authorities, decided to take her somewhere they would never look -
Craigavon
Baker groomed his
victim in England and, concerned he would be caught by the authorities,
decided to take her somewhere they would never look - Craigavon, where
his wife Caroline was originally from.
'Baker knew she had been reported missing and so he wanted to get her somewhere 'safe',' said a source.
At a previous hearing the victim was described in court as having severe learning difficulties and in very poor health.
Caroline
Baker has been described as being 'under the spell' of her domineering
husband and while he has been in Maghaberry Prison, near Lisburn,
Northern Ireland, on remand, she was granted bail.
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