A TWISTED woman live-streamed herself sexually abusing a young girl over a period of almost three years.

Christine Callaghan, from Bexhill, was paid thousands of pounds to carry out the horrific acts over Skype.

The 33-year-old admitted four child sexual abuse charges and awaits sentencing.

The warped offences were uncovered as the result of an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) into Jodie Little, who was found guilty of similar offences.

Dean Petley of Leamington Spa was identified as a customer of Little, who operated under the names “Devil B**** 666” and “DomTabooSlut” on an adult services website from her home in Cyprus.

Police arrested 30-year-old Petley and unearthed an encrypted hard drive at his home.

This contained screenshots of Skype conversations with Callaghan over a two-year period.

These included images clearly showing her abusing the girl as Petley watched. He could be seen in a small window in the corner of the screen.

The hard drive also contained a ten-minute video of Callaghan abusing the young girl and screenshots of the acts showed at least ten different dates between 2016 and 2018.

She was paid £2,285 by Petley to carry out the abuse.

Callaghan “performed penetrative sexual activity in front of the victim and also sexually abused her,” according to the NCA.

In Isleworth Crown Court, London, on Friday Callaghan admitted distributing indecent live streamed videos and two counts of causing or inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity.

She will be sentenced at a date to be confirmed.

At the same hearing Petley, an automotive engineer, admitted 11 charges last month and was jailed for eight years.

Jason Booth, NCA operations manager, said: “Petley and Callaghan’s convictions were only possible because of our determination to make Jodie Little face justice.

“Distance is not a barrier for the NCA in pursuing UK child sex offenders wherever they are.

“The investigation into Little has unravelled other leads that our policing partners are working on.

“These were horrendous crimes, but they’re an example of what the NCA is seeing more and more with increasingly worsening cyber-enabled child sexual offending.

“The NCA knows that the scale and severity of offending against children is worsening.

“We and UK police arrest about 500 child sex offenders a month and safeguard about 700 children a month.

“There is no greater priority for us than protecting children.”

Child Protection Charity The Lucy Faithfull Foundation runs the Stop It Now! helpline which offers confidential advice to anyone concerned about their own or someone else’s behaviour towards children.