A PAEDO cop who took a smiling selfie after raping a 13-year-old girl he called "sexy" in sickening texts has been jailed for 25 years today.

Ian Naude, 30, said the girl "seemed to be enjoying" the horrific attack and asked her to call him "Daddy" because he found it a "turn on".

The cop was obsessed with taking the virginity of teenagers and joined Cheshire Police "to gain the keys to a sweet shop" and meet vulnerable girls.

But he had been named in connection with two child grooming cases in neighbouring force areas and the rape of a woman.

The fiend has today been jailed for 25 years at Liverpool Crown Court after being found guilty of four counts of attempting to arrange the commission of a child sex offence.

He was also convicted of one count of arranging the commission of a child sex offence in relation to five other complainants aged between 12 and 15.

Naude had already admitted 30 other offences, including inciting children to engage in sexual activity, causing children to watch sexual acts and misconduct in a public office.

Honorary recorder of Liverpool Judge Clement Goldstone QC said he abused his position as a cop to "satisfy your lust and perversion".

He said Naude was "out of control" with an "insatiable appetite" for young girls.

The court heard Naude had originally been called to a domestic incident at the victim's house in October 2017.

He then contacted her on Facebook and exchanged a string of sexual images and messages before picking her up in his car.

The "committed paedophile" drove the girl to a country lane and raped her in the backseat while filming the horrifying attack.

In an emotional victim impact statement, her mother told the court how the girl would no longer leave the house alone.

Sick messages he sent to some of his victims were revealed - with the 30-year-old posing as a teen boy Jake Green, as well as a Snapchat account called "King of the North".

In one exchange, Naude was told the girl was "13 coming 14".

He replied: "Ooooh you're still 13... that's so sexy..."

In another, he said: "I thought you were older than that, you're so pretty for only 14 hey."

The court heard Naude, who joined Cheshire Police in April 2017, had been acting on an "ever increasing interest in young girls" over the past six or seven years.

He would use the name Bruce Ian Wayne on Facebook in an apparent reference to Batman.

After complimenting his victims, he would then demand nude images and threaten to expose her to her friends if she refused.

In other messages, he persuaded his victims to undress before he sent videos of himself masturbating.

But in a police blunder, he was accidentally copied into a police email revealing the plan to arrest him - giving him time to delete 756 images from his phone.

Other devices, including a laptop and another phone, were later discovered in a field in Market Drayton after he gave a hand-drawn map of their location to his cellmate.

The dad-of-one had been due to join Cheshire Police as a student officer in January 2017 but it was put on hold following an allegation he had raped a woman in Staffordshire.

When no further action was taken, the process was allowed to continue and he was appointed to the force in April that year.

When he was investigated following his arrest, cops discovered he had also been a named suspect in two child grooming allegations in 2017.

The Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC)found there was no case to answer for misconduct for any individual officer.

Naude, who previously served in Afghanistan as a machine gunner with the Royal Irish Regiment, denied that he had attempted to arrange to commit child sex offences, claiming that messages sent to girls asking them to meet were just fantasy.

Detective Chief Superintendent Aaron Duggan said: "It was Ian Naude's job to enforce the law and protect the most vulnerable from harm.

"Instead he did the opposite."