An NHS midwife who led a secret double life as an X-rated webcam model has been jailed for ‘brainwashing’ underage girls into sex with her husband.
Claire Moores, 46, and husband Craig, 51, from Stockport, would host swingers’ orgies where they plied local schoolgirls with drugs and drink to get them to join in their so-called ‘pleasure palace’ activities.
Confused victims including two young sisters were either forced into threesomes with the Moores or made to watch them having sex while being filmed.
One was even taken to watch Mrs Moores take part in a live ‘B****fight’ between women which was filmed for X-rated websites.
One neighbour suspicious of the couple’s activities went up to their lounge window to see Mrs Moores dressed only in a basque and suspenders undressing one girl ahead of a romp with her perverted husband.
Police eventually had to arrest the sex-crazed couple for their own safety in 2020 after furious neighbours surrounded their property in Stockport, Greater Manchester, and started shouting ‘dirty, dirty nonces’ at them.
It emerged one of girls had a four year affair with Mr Moores starting when she was 13.
In a statement one victim now in his 30s said: ‘These two people have taken a piece of my life I will never get back.
‘They have taken my childhood from me and left me with feelings of shame and guilt because I was effectively brainwashed. I wanted to teach primary school children and it was only eventually, after a while, I did my teacher training.
‘But I often had dreams and nightmares of what happened, which left me feeling depressed. I have been living with the effects of being on drugs since 13 and missed out on a normal school because of it. I felt like a victim all my life.’
Another victim now in her 20s said: ‘I will have to live with Claire in my mind all my life. I left school with no qualifications because of my drug use.
‘I pushed away teachers and counsellors who were trying to help me. I had to start from the bottom with work, my life is a battle. They may have destroyed my past, but they will not destroy my future.’
Claire Moores was jailed for 13 years and her husband for 15 years after they were convicted of 25 sex offences – including indecent assault and sexual activity with a child committed between 2002 and 2015 and involving three girls.
Prosecutor Julia Goode said: ‘Claire Moores operated in the sex industry in her spare time, dressing up in erotic clothing and charging clients to view her performances over a webcam.
‘Both defendants had a sexual interest in underage children.’
The elder child was groomed by them, fed with a cocktail of drugs, and effectively brainwashed into joining in with their lifestyle and becoming a part of it.
Claire Moores had previous convictions for arson and for inciting underage boys to engage in a sexual act after she flashed her breasts at three youths whilst washing her car.
Her lawyer Colin Buckle said: ‘She has been diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder.’
The shadow of her depression has never left her life. She is vulnerable.
