A couple have today been found guilty of giving their 15-year-old babysitter meow meow and cannabis and pressurising him into losing his virginity.
Taxi driver John Ford, 46, incited the teenager to have sex with his 24-year-old partner Nicola Mason and watched as the two had intercourse.
On an earlier occasion, he also looked on as his partner stripped off in front of the boy and performed a sex act.
The couple had both denied the allegations but at Mold Crown Court today they were both convicted by majority verdicts - him by 10 to 2 and her by 11 to 1.
Judge Rhys Rowlands remanded Ford in custody and bailed Mason ahead of sentencing in October but warned them that they faced inevitable prison sentences.
He said that he took the view that Mason had acted under Ford's influence - but knew precisely what she was doing. Mason broke down in the dock and threw her arms around Ford's neck after the verdicts were announced.
The judge said it was a very serious matter - penetrative sexual acts involving a 15-year-old boy who had been given drugs. Judge Rowlands refused to bail Ford and said in view of the depravity he had displayed there was a likelihood of further offending.
He told the couple: "The law is there to protect the young and the court is there to uphold the law." While he did not know the exact nature of their relationship, he said: "I have no doubt at all that you Nicola Mason would have been, and still are, under the influence of you John Ford.
"Albeit that you Ford is a controlling individual getting some sort of perverted pleasure from offering your partner to others and belittling her in front of others, the sad fact is that you Mason were quite prepared to go along with his depravity."
The offences involved oral sex and full intercourse which would be regarded as "totally and utterly repulsive by all right thinking individuals." He said he wished to make it clear that because of the gravity of such offending, they should both expect immediate custodial sentences.
Mason cried hysterically in the dock when Ford - who also runs a second hand shop and who at one stage managed a Rhyl cafe - was handcuffed and led down to the cell block.
The couple, now of Rhydwyn, Holyhead, sexually abused the boy, now 16, in May and June of last year at their former home in Eastville Avenue in Rhyl.
Ford had denied two charges of inciting the child to engage with sexual activity with Mason. Mason, who is pregnant with Ford's second child, denied two charges of sexual activity with a child.
Prosecuting barrister Myles Wilson told how the boy was given cannabis and MCAT and was pressured by Ford to have sex with his partner.
"Both these defendants, in effect, took advantage of a 15-year-old lad who was a virgin at the time. "He lost his virginity by being pressured into it, with John Ford looking on," he said.
The first time was when the couple returned home after a night out. It was the first time the boy had ever baby sat for them and he took the view that they were under the influence, off their faces or drugged up. Ford was alleged to have said of his partner words to the effect of "she is off her head" and "you can do anything you like with her."
The boy was embarrassed but Ford was serious, and he continued by saying that she would "suck him off".
Mr Wilson said that the boy felt nervous and out of his depth but Ford told Mason to strip off, and she did in the front room. He claimed that Ford was persistent, almost taunting the boy, by saying "you must be gay then" when he kept saying no.
Eventually he said ok and Mason pulled down his shorts and under pants and gave him oral sex, with Ford watching on.
The boy baby sat again two to three weeks later. Then the defendants did not waste any time and Ford took him upstairs to the main bedroom where Mason appeared naked.
She got onto the bed and it was alleged that Ford told the boy "that's your bitch" and "you can do anything you want."
Initially the boy said no, he did not want to go through with it, particularly in front of Ford.
But Ford would not take no for an answer. So he ended up having sex in front of Ford with Mason on the bed. Mr Wilson said that it was the prosecution case that the defendants liked to involve other people in their sex lives.
Ford had previously mentioned a threesome to another young man and was alleged to have encouraged other men to have sex with his partner, who he met when she was just 18.
Both denied that anything sexual took place and accused the boy of making it up. They denied that they were "swingers" who involved others in their sex lives when they went out for late night walks.
Defence barristers Andrew Green and Simon Rogers said that the boy had lied at a previous hearing in the crown court when he had denied perverting the course of justice but had been convicted.
They accused him of making it up and boasting about it to his brother, who told others what had happened and the police were alerted.
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