Nigerian teenage boy who recorded s3xual abuse of children to sell to paedophiles online jailed in UK

A Nigerian teenager who recorded s3xual abuse of children to sell to paedophiles online was sentenced to four years imprisonment in the United Kingdom. 

Gift Ayoola, 19, encouraged young children to engage in s3xual activity online and recorded the footage to sell to paed0philes. 

Ayoola, who moved to the UK from Nigeria after the d3ath of his mother, was paid £5,000 by one paedophile for sickening images and video, and was found with hundreds of images of child abuse.

A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday, September 16, 2026 heard Ayoola was in contact with a 12-year-old girl online, who he told to expose her v@gina and anus.

Prosecutor John Ryan said the defendant told the child to watch him masturbate.

In another online chat, Ayoola was in contact with a girl aged between 11 and 13-years-old and a girl aged between two and four-years-old.

Ayoola was first arrested in January 2025 at his home in Cardiff and a number of devices were seized, which were found to contain indecent images of children.

In total there were 455 category A images (four of which had been obtained through recording children), 401 category B images and 389 category C images.

There were also extreme porn0graphic images depicting bestiality.

The defendant was also found to be part of online group chats on Telegram and WhatsApp in which he distributed indecent images of children.

Paedophiles requested to buy pictures and videos from Ayoola, including 877 in total with transactions made over PayPal.

He also acknowledged receipt of £5,000 from one paed0phile.

During his interview, Ayoola said he was supplied images of children aged between 16 and 18-years-old and admitted to sharing and sending images “due to pressure and to obtain money”.

The defendant was arrested again on March 5, 2026, when he was found in possession of further indecent images, including children as young as four-years-old.

These included 14 category A images, 15 category B images and 22 category C images.

Ayoola of Pendyris Street, Riverside, later pleaded guilty to making indecent images, distributing indecent images, possessing extreme pornography, and causing/inciting children to engage in s3xual activity.

The court heard he was of previous good character.

In mitigation, Martha Smith-Higgins said her client was still a young man, and was even younger at the time of the offences.

The barrister said the defendant, who lost his mother at six-years-old and moved to the UK from Nigeria, was remorseful for his actions.

Sentencing, Judge Vanessa Francis said: “The children you exploited were much younger than you, some were very young indeed. These children required protection and you were encouraging them to pose for extremely harmful material. This was a grievous form of s3xual abuse.”

“These were not simply images, they were children whose trust and vulnerability were exploited in order to make s3xual material.”

The judge dismissed claims the defendant was not s3xually attracted to children and his crimes were not s3xually motivated.

Ayoola was sentenced to four years imprisonment, and was made subject to s3x offender notification requirements indefinitely and a S3xual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years.