UK- from www.stalbansreview.co.uk – A wheelchair-bound pervert from Harpenden who painted the toenails of young girls and filmed himself sucking their feet has escaped a prison sentence.

Zolly Littlechild, 49, stored videos on his computer along with thousands of images of girls, some as young as six, in provocative poses.

He was given a suspended 12-month prison sentence at St Albans Crown Court yesterday after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing to sexual assault, inciting a child to perform a sexual act and possessing indecent images of children.

One of the conditions of the sentence banned him from painting the toenails of any child under 18.

Prosecutor Ann Evans said the victims had been allowed into his flat by their parents to watch television. She said they had let Littlechild paint their toenails, unaware of his “foot fetish.”

She said: “His physical disabilities lulled them into a false sense of security about his motives towards these little girls.”

One victim, now aged ten, was told not to tell anyone what he did as the police would put him in prison. He videoed her putting both her big toes in his mouth and told her to say: “Suck it.”

When police raided his flat in August last year, they found on his computer 125 films of Littlechild’s activities, with thousands of indecent images of children, most low level.

Defence barrister Maria Dinneen said her client was “deeply ashamed” of his conduct and “has shown genuine remorse for the effect his conduct has had on the little girls and their families”.

Sentencing Littlechild, now of Borehamwood, Judge Marie Catterson said: “It’s quite apparent you have what is called a foot fetish.”

She said sucking the youngsters’ toes for his own mental sexual gratification had been entirely wrong.

“It was an abuse and exploitative behaviour of young children,” she said.

The case was made worse, she said because there was a breach or trust of the parents who had in some case put themselves out to help Littlechild.

He was given a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years and told he will be under the supervision of the probation service during that time The judge also made a Sexual Offence Prevention Order which prohibits Littlechild from having any unsupervised access with child under 18 and painting the toenails of any child.