{"id":3818,"date":"2013-11-28T06:17:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T06:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/28\/police-lostprophets-singer-brought-to-justice\/"},"modified":"2013-11-28T06:17:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T06:17:28","slug":"police-lostprophets-singer-brought-to-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/11\/28\/police-lostprophets-singer-brought-to-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Lostprophets singer &#8216;brought to justice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/19\/Ian_Watkins_of_Lostprophets_%282007%29.jpg\/220px-Ian_Watkins_of_Lostprophets_%282007%29.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"229\" \/><br \/>Detective chief Inspector Peter Doyle says the investigation into former lead singer of British rock band Lostprophets uncovered the &#8220;most shocking and harrowing child abuse evidence&#8221; he has ever seen.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p> The former lead singer of British rock band Lostprophets has pleaded guilty to a series of sexual offenses, including trying to rape a baby.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Watkins, 36, was arrested last December and charged with more than 20 offenses, including raping a baby, conspiring to sexually assault a child and making indecent images.<\/p>\n<p>He had denied the charges but changed his plea Tuesday at Cardiff Crown Court and admitted 11 offenses, including sexually touching a one-year-old, encouraging a fan to abuse her child and making child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Detective chief Inspector Peter Doyle said: &#8220;This investigation has uncovered the most shocking and harrowing child abuse evidence I&#8217;ve ever seen. There is no doubt in my mind that Ian Watkins has exploited his celebrity status in order to abuse young children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today&#8217;s outcome ensures that the three people responsible have been brought to justice.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Watkins will be sentenced on Dec 18.<\/p>\n<p>Lostprophets, which formed in 1997 and had a chart-topping album in 2006 with &#8220;Liberation Transmission,&#8221; announced it was disbanding after Watkins&#8217; arrest. <\/p>\n<p>Source: The Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detective chief Inspector Peter Doyle says the investigation into former lead singer of British rock&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}