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Summer camp leader pleads guilty to drugging and sexually assaulting two boys
Jon Ruben admitted to drugging with sedatives and sexually assaulting two boys while eight children required hospital care, prosecutors said at Leicester Crown Court.
- On Friday, Jon Ruben pleaded guilty at Leicester Crown Court to 17 charges after admitting he laced sweets with tranquillising drugs and sexually assaulted two boys at a summer camp held at Stathern Lodge, Stathern, Leicestershire.
- Prosecutors say Ruben ran the camp for 27 years and "played what he called the sweet game with the children"; his stepson raised concerns in July 2025, prompting police calls on July 25 and July 27.
- Police said they found drugs, syringes, baby oil, Vaseline, sex toys and three injected sweets at Stathern Lodge, and victims' urine and blood samples were taken with eight children taken to hospital and one rushed in for treatment.
- Ruben was remanded in custody until November 28 and must attend by video-link, while prosecutors have two weeks to consider a denied assault charge and sentencing is pending.
- Police also found indecent images on Ruben's electronic devices, including abuse of boys as young as six, while the camp served underprivileged children run by Stathern Children's Holiday Fund, and detectives called the probe 'horrific' with ongoing victim support.
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Summer camp leader admits ‘sweet game’ child cruelty and sex offences
Jon Ruben, 76, admitted a total of 17 offences during a hearing at Leicester Crown Court.
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