Head who 'loves young girls' had indecent pics

A DISGRACED former headteacher who told fellow perverts that he was aroused by schoolgirls had amassed a vile stash of child abuse images.

- By ROB KENNEDY

Dean Juric

To the outside world, Dean Juric was the respected head of St Robert of Newminster School, in Washington. But behind closed doors he harboured a sexual interest in young girls.

He was caught after engaging in seedy exchanges with an undercover police officer online, during which he distributed an indecent image of a girl. When police raided his home, they found dozens of indecent images on his phone, together with further disturbing chats on social media platform Kik.

In those, he expressed sexual interest in schoolgirls and wrote: "Love young girls."

Newcastle Crown Court heard an undercover law enforcement officer was posing as a paedophile grandfather online and Juric engaged with him in a group chat.

Omar Ahmad, prosecuting, said: "He [Juric] asked if he liked 'teens' and sent images of two schoolgirls wearing school uniform aged about 15 years old."