Cecil Maurice Mabb, 42, abducted a five-year-old girl in January. In custody, he later told prison staff he had kidnapped the girl with the plan to eat her. He has been sentenced to six years behind bars.
Campground cannibal snatches girl so he âcan eat herâ A court has heard horrifying details of the moment a sex fiend snatched a five-year-old girl from a campground.
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Subscriber only A SELF-professed paedophile who snatched a five-year-old girl from a campground in Tasmania s far North-West told staff at Risdon Prison he had done so intending to eat her, a court has heard. Cecil Maurice Mabb, 42, has pleaded guilty to assault and attempted abduction in relation to the incident at Montagu Campground on January 24. Crown Prosecutor Yolanda Prence told Justice Robert Pearce in the Supreme Court in Burnie on Tuesday that intelligence from Risdon Prison indicated Mabb had told staff he told police he was a paedophile because that was better than what he really was .
Man who abducted 5yo from campground wanted to eat her, court hears
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Cecil Mabb pleaded guilty to the charges in January.
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A man who abducted a five-year-old girl in Tasmania told prison staff he took the child because he wanted to eat her, a court has heard.
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Cecil Maurice Mabb is being sentenced over the abduction of a five-year-old girl from a Tasmanian campground
He attempted to strangle the girl who was later found dazed and shocked by a fellow camper
The girl and a friend who witnessed the terrifying abduction were left traumatised, the court heard
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A self-confessed paedophile who took a five-year-old girl from a campground in Tasmania allegedly told prison staff his intention was to eat the child.
Cecil Maurice Mabb, 42, pleaded guilty to assault and attempted abduction of the young girl in Montagu on January 24.
Mabb allegedly told staff at Ridson Prison that he confessed to being a paedophile because it was better than what he really was , Crown Prosecutor Yolanda Prence told the court, according to The Mercury. He told staff he had taken the little girl so he could eat her.
But defence counsel Hannah Phillips told the court there was no evidence Mabb ever said he wanted to eat the girl.