Huckle wanted to become foster parent

Huckle. - Photo from Skynews

PETALING JAYA: Paedophile Richard Huckle (pic) wanted to become a foster parent so he would have a continuous supply of children to abuse, he wrote on a paedophile website and heard in court, the Daily Mail reported.

The report said Huckle confessed that he wanted to marry one of the girls he had been abusing in Malaysia and raise foster children.

“My ambition once married would be for our family to be like foster carers for children, temporarily or long term... I would like a cycle of children to come through my house,” Huckle wrote.

Huckle, 30, spent nine years raping and sexually assaulting children while he was in Malaysia teaching English and doubling as a photographer since 2009.

He was caught with more than 20,000 images of horrific child sex abuse and attacks on an estimated 200 children, some of them toddlers.

He was arrested at Gatwick Airport in December 2014.

The report said the court also heard that Huckle's parents asked police to take him away after he admitted to the crimes.

At the second day of his sentencing hearing, prosecutor Brian O'Neill QC said before being charged Huckle was bailed under strict conditions to the home of his parents, Edwin and Christina, in Ashford, Kent.

He said his father had been at the airport to meet him and investigators had conducted a search of the family address while he was in custody.

'His mother was extremely upset and extremely angry. She and his father called the police and asked them to take their son away, making it clear they didn't want him under their roof,' the prosecutor said.

Huckle faces up to 22 life sentences at the Old Bailey after admitting to an unprecedented 71 charges, including rape, sexual assault, and sexual activity with a child.