Vile Rotherham sex offender paid Filipino mother for abuse images of her daughter & asked for livestream
A “depraved” man paid a mother for sickening child sexual abuse images of her nine-year-old daughter and asked for live webstreams of the child, after becoming involved with a trafficking network operating in the Philippines.
Richard Green, aged 49, was splitting his time between Rotherham and Thailand, where his wife lived, when he became involved with the exploitative enterprise, Sheffield Crown Court was told during a December 9, 2025 hearing.
Over the course of 350 messages with a Filipino woman involved with the “child trafficking network,” Green discussed the sexual abuse of her nine-year-old daughter and asked for live webcam streams.
The network was brought down following an undercover investigation by Homeland Security in the United States of America.
Jailing Green for more than four years, The Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, told him: “Those who seek sexual gratification by the exploitation of children in the Far East or any other country should be severely punished.”
Detailing some of the conversations Green had with the woman, Gordon Stables, prosecuting, said: “The defendant was asking if the girl was nine, and this was confirmed…she said it was her daughter. The defendant asked if the girl was a virgin, and she confirmed she was.
“The defendant was saying he wanted to travel there, and ‘take’ her for two weeks.”
In addition to the hundreds of messages, Green was also found to have made 10 “connected” video calls to the woman, and have received nine multimedia files, classified as indecent images of children.
During the course of their four-month communication, which ran between July and November 2019, the woman also told Green she had “more girls” aged nine, 10, 13 and 16, who, she claimed, were her nieces.
Mr Stables continued: “The defendant asked for pictures of them, and was given a price.”
Green, of Fir Close, Wath upon Dearne, Rotherham, followed up by asking if the “girls just showed their bodies or more,” to which the woman replied: “more.”
As Green fulfilled a request to pay ₱1,000 in Philippine pesos - which is the equivalent of £12.73 in pound sterling - the woman began referring to a 10-year-old boy.
“Green asked what the boy does,” Mr Stables said, adding that Green went on to ask if the boy would have sex with the girls.
The woman replied by claiming to also have “control” of the boy, the court heard.
A further payment, this time in US dollars, of $12.85 was made to the woman for what Mr Stables described as “child sexual exploitation and abuse material.”
Green went on to ask for a video call, with certain requests of the children involved, around a fortnight later.
Responding to questions from Judge Richardson as to whether the requested material was provided, Mr Stables said “certainly, some material has been provided” - based on what investigators were able to glean from the pair’s online communications.
He added, however: “It’s not clear if he got precisely what he was hoping to get…there seems to be requests to part with money. Some he parts with, some he doesn’t.”
Mr Stables said Green’s communication with the woman came to an end when she was arrested, as part of Homeland Security’s investigation into “child sexual trafficking networks” in the Philippines.
A total of seven children were rescued following her arrest, and she was subsequently sent to begin a prison sentence of “several years,” Mr Stables told the court.
While Homeland Security’s undercover investigation into the trafficking network concluded in 2019, the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the UK was not passed information until January 2024.
Green was arrested just a month later in February 2024.
He subsequently pleaded guilty to charges, including one count of attempting to arrange/facilitate the commission of a child sexual offence, along with making indecent images of children in Categories A, B and C.
Defending, Ian West suggested that while Green had attempted to “distance himself a little” from the offences, in conversations with the author of his pre-sentence report, he has since gone back on that position.
Green, who worked in the building industry, suffered numerous injuries in a serious workplace accident in October 2024, in which he fell from the ceiling to the floor below , Mr West said.
They included a fractured neck and six fractured ribs, resulting in him being plagued by an "incapacitating” case of sciatica.
Mr West continued: “He’s had an unpleasant experience with his estranged wife in Thailand…when it became apparent she would have to be his carer, rather than his wife.
“They have been estranged since February of this year, and there’s been no contact since.”
Mr West said Green had been living with his parents in their sheltered accommodation, but since their deaths over the last year, he has been rendered “effectively homeless.”
Sending Green to begin a sentence of four years, six months, Judge Richardson said he had taken Green’s mitigation, and the fact a prison sentence is likely to “fall hard” upon him, into consideration.
He praised the NCA officers involved with the investigation, telling the court they had acted with “celerity” and "diligence" and the court is indebted to them.
Judge Richardson continued: “The court is also indebted to US authorities. This is an appropriate example of the cooperation between international agencies, and I’m grateful for it.”
Green was also told he must remain on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely, and was made the subject of an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.
Speaking after Green was jailed, Holly Triggs, NCA Operations Manager said: “Richard Green has been targeting children in the Philippines over a number of years, organising depraved abuse that he could access through a livestream.
“Green posed a significant risk to children. While he may have believed the distance between him and the abuse he orchestrated meant he would avoid detection, his crimes were uncovered with the assistance of policing partners in the US.
“The NCA will target and pursue UK child abuse offenders wherever their offending occurs.”