A WOMAN told how strangers turned up at her house asking for sex after her boyfriend secretly filmed her naked and uploaded the footage along with her address to porn sites.
Sharon Thompson, 40, had no idea that her then partner, Darren Rowe, 49, had hidden cameras around their house – even while she was pregnant.
In a bizarre turn, Rowe comforted Sharon after strange men came to the house expecting sex.
Builder Rowe was eventually caught when police traced the IP addresses from the sex website adverts to a house where Darren had been doing building work on.
In October 2019, Rowe was convicted of disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress but only received a suspended sentence.
Now Sharon is sharing her story for the first time.
She told how she met "deviant sexual predator" Rowe at secondary school after he became best pals with her brother.
But, it wasn’t until August 2015 that catering assistant Sharon reunited with Rowe after he messaged her on Facebook and asked her out.
The mum-of-three, says: “I was a single mum with two kids and ready to meet someone again.”
“After our first date, we were inseparable.”
In December 2015, Sharon introduced Rowe to her children and a month later, he moved into her home.
Sharon says: “The following year, I fell pregnant and we discovered we were having a baby girl.
“We were really happy.”
5Two years later, in March 2017, when Sharon was eight months pregnant, a stranger knocked on her door.
She says: “The man stood in silence while staring at my swollen belly.
“He looked really confused.
“He quickly apologised and told me he’d got the wrong address, before running off.
“Darren and I were confused, but then didn’t think anything more of it.”
A month later, Sharon gave birth to the couple’s daughter.
Three weeks later, more than a dozen men showed up at Sharon’s house.
Sharon says: “This time I was terrified.
“Within the space of 10 hours, 12 men knocked on the door."
Darren had uploaded the footage to tons of sex and swinger websites. He also had dirty conversations with men using my name and picture on Snapchat and WhatsApp. Then he'd sent them to our house.
“They all ran off when they saw me holding the baby," she continued.
“When the 13th man knocked, I begged him to explain why he was there.
“The man said he’d come to have sex with me because I’d given him my name and address on a sex website.
“My body froze, I had no idea what he was talking about.
“I quickly called the police and they told me to lock my doors and they’d look into it for me.
“I was hysterical but Darren did his best to comfort me.”
Over the next six months, Sharon received hundreds of messages every day from strangers on Facebook.
Sharon says: “They wrote ‘Hey Sharon! We’ve been talking on FabSwingers’ and ‘Hi sexy, let me see more dirty naked photos.’
She added: “I was crying my eyes out every day."
“I was desperate to know who was behind it.
“Hundreds of men continued to show up at our house as well.
“Soon, I was scared for the safety of the kids.”
In November 2017, police officers delivered some shocking news.
Sharon says: “I opened the door and hoped they were there to tell me they’d caught the pervert.
“An officer stared at Darren and said ‘It was you all along.’
“I looked at Darren and he didn’t say anything.
“My heart sank and I collapsed to the floor, crying hysterically."
I opened the door and hoped they were there to tell me they’d caught the pervert. An officer stared at Darren and said ‘It was you all along.’
“I wanted to throw up,” she finished.
Rowe was arrested and after the police left, Sharon frantically searched Rowe’s van.
There, she discovered six mobile phones hidden underneath his car seat.
Sharon says: “I was too afraid to look, so I just handed them to the police.
“The next day an officer showed me naked photos and videos of myself that went back an entire year.
“Some were of me drying my hair after a shower, others were me naked in our bedroom after I'd put my daughter to sleep.
“Darren had uploaded the footage to tons of sex and swinger websites.
“He also had dirty conversations with men using my name and picture on Snapchat and WhatsApp.
“Then he'd sent them to our house."
“I couldn't believe the father of my child had done this to me.”
In October 2019, Darren Rowe, 49, of Rowley Regis, Birmingham, pleaded guilty to two counts of disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
He received a two-year suspended sentence.
Sharon says: “I was horrified when I discovered he wasn’t going to jail.
“It angers me when people call my case 'revenge porn' because there was no revenge.
“I was in a loving, committed relationship when this happened.
“I also had no idea I was being recorded.
“My poor daughter is going to have to learn what her father did one day
“I thought I was in a loving relationship, but I was actually living with a pervert.
“I still have no idea why he did it.
“The one thing I am sure of is Darren is a deviant sexual predator that should be behind bars.”
What is revenge porn?
Revenge porn is one of the UK's newest crimes as cops and politicians look to clamp down on a growing trend of ex-partners humiliating their former lovers.
The consequences of Revenge Porn can be devastating but people are often unaware of the risks or what they should do if they become a victim.
The Government says: "Revenge Porn is the sharing of private, sexual materials, either photos or videos, of another personwithout their consent and with the purpose of causing embarrassment or distress.
"The images are sometimes accompanied by personal information about the subject, including their full name, address and links to social media profiles.
"The offence applies both online and offline and to images shared electronically in a more traditional way, so includes the uploading of images on the internet, sharing by text and e-mail, or showing someone a physical or electronic image.
"Under the new offence, private materials are those showing anything not usually seen in public.
"Sexual material not only covers images that show the pubic region, but anything that a reasonable person would consider to be sexual so this could be a picture of someone who is engaged in sexual behaviour or posing in a sexually provocative way."
A new law was introduced in England and Wales in 2015 in a bid to crack down on crimes against women.
It made it an offence to share private sexual images or videos without the subject's consent, with a maximum sentence of two years imprisonment.
A September 2016 Crown Prosecution Service report said 206 people were prosecuted for sharing private sexual images in the first year of the offence.
Anyone can become a target of revenge porn but in the majority of cases the offender is known to the victim.
Victim Support, an independent charity which provides help and information to victims of crime, say it is important for people targeted through explicit pictures not to suffer in silence.
Sadly, Louise also fell victim to revenge porn when a Facebook friend posted pictures of her naked online.
Meanwhile, Sarah Jane found out her 'perfect' man had beaten his ex until she suffered a miscarriage.
And mum-of-one Devon Brown, 26, from Wigan endured months of controlling behaviour at the hands of her jealous ex.
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