John Hawley raped the child after encouragement from Lennon A deputy head teacher who encouraged another man to rape a three-year-old girl has been jailed for seven years.
Patrick Lennon, 59, told John Hawley, 38, to sexually abuse the child while he and a third man, Phillip Skitt, 54, watched on a webcam.
Lennon, of Warwick Avenue, Crosby, Merseyside, pleaded guilty to a string of sexual offences at Liverpool Crown Court.
He is suspended from his job at all-girl Greenbank High School, Southport.
The court heard that Lennon contacted Hawley, 38, from Halliwell, Bolton, and Skitt, of Orrell Road, Wigan, over the internet.
Among the offences he admitted were two counts of encouraging or assisting Hawley to commit the attack on the girl in November 2008.
He also admitted six counts of possessing extreme pornography and 15 counts of making indecent images of children.
Hawley admitted child rape and was jailed for an indeterminate sentence for public protection (IPP) to serve a minimum of eight years.
Skitt admitted encouraging sexual abuse and received a prison term of eight years with three years on licence following his release.
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