US EditionSummer camp leader admits drugging wife while he sexually assaulted children
Jon Ruben admitted drugging his wife with Temazepam to prevent her waking while he drugged and sexually assaulted children at a Leicestershire summer camp, affecting at least eight victims.
- On Wednesday at Leicester Crown Court, Jon Ruben, 76-year-old former vet and camp operator, pleaded guilty and sobbed after admitting he gave Temazapam to his wife, Susan Ruben, between July 26 and 29 last year so she would not wake while he sexually assaulted the children.
- Evidence shows Ruben ran residential holidays at Stathern Lodge, a venue hosting up to 70 children aged eight to 11, and used a 'sweet game' to administer laced sweets to sedate them.
- Prosecutors said forensic and medical evidence showed Ruben admitted sexual assault of a child under 13, eight counts of child cruelty, and police found more than 50 Category A videos while eight children were hospitalised.
- Judge Timothy Spencer KC warned Ruben at Leicester Crown Court, and Prosecutor Mary Prior KC said Ruben asked police for a voluntary interview when he admitted drugging his wife.
- Leicestershire Police said the owners and operators of Stathern Lodge were independent from those who hire or use the lodge and 'not connected to the incident', and none of the indecent images related to children who were at the summer camp.
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Leicester news: Pensioner who sexually abused children at summer camp also drugged wife
A 76-year-old former vet who sexually abused children at a summer camp has confessed to sedating his wife to prevent her from waking during the attacks.Jon Ruben appeared at Leicester Crown Court on Wednesday and pleaded guilty to administering Temazepam, a noxious substance, to his wife between July 26 and 29 last year.Prosecutor Mary Prior KC explained that Ruben had requested a voluntary police interview during which he disclosed the drugging…
John Reuben, the camp's manager and father of two, drugged the boys and then sexually abused them, while on two occasions he also drugged his wife so she wouldn't understand what he was doing.
Summer camp leader, 76, who sexually assaulted children after drugging them with sweets laced with poison also drugged wife
A man who drugged children with sweets at a summer camp before sexually assaulting them has admitted drugging his wife so she would not wake up.
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Summer camp leader admits drugging wife while he sexually assaulted children
Jon Ruben had previously admitted sexually assaulting two boys at a summer camp.
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