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>Ian David Karslake Watkins (born 30 July 1977) is a Welsh singer, songwriter, musician, and convicted sex offender. He was the lead vocalist, and lyricist of the rock band Lostprophets. On 19 December 2012, Watkins was charged at Cardiff magistrates court with conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a one-year-old girl and possession and/or distribution of indecent images of children and "extreme animal pornography".
>Watkins pleaded guilty to attempted rape and sexual assault of a child under 13, He further pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault involving children; six counts of taking, making, or possessing indecent images of children; and one count of possessing an extreme pornographic image involving a sex act on an animal.[4] His victims included a baby boy,[19][20] and he sent a text message to the mother of one victim that said, "If you belong to me, so does your baby."
>The South Wales Police investigation into Watkins, codenamed "Operation Globe", required the co-operation of GCHQ to decrypt a hidden drive on his laptop, which was found to contain video evidence of his abuses.[19] On 27 November, the day after his guilty plea had been accepted by the prosecution, Watkins referred to his sex offences as "mega lolz" in a recorded phone call to a female fan made from HM Prison Parc.
