Pedophile jailed for 50-years after admitting to abusing girl over 300 times

MISSOURI – Town chiefs from a small Missouri suburb have rallied to support a pedophile father-of-seven despite him confessing to abusing a young girl 300 times. Darren Paden, 52, from Dearborn, was jailed for 50 years on Friday after he admitted a string of sex attacks on the girl, starting when she was just five years old. But residents in Dearborn, which has a population of 500, have refused to accept his appalling crime despite his confession, pleading with the judge to be lenient and shunning his victim in the street. Paden, a former volunteer firefighting chief and member of the Air National Guard, was first accused of the crimes after his victim went to police three years ago. Now 18, the girl told officers that Paden abused her over the course of a decade, watching pornographic films with her, and forcing them to perform sex acts on one another. According to prosecutors, Paden told his victim that the abuse was ‘our little secret’. READ MORE HERE