A Nigerian teenager, Gift Ayoola, has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for recording the sexual abuses of children and selling them to paedophiles in the United Kingdom.

He was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to making and distributing indecent images, possessing extreme pornography, and causing and inciting children to engage in sexual activities.

The 19-year-old Nigerian asked young children to engage in online sexual activities, recorded them and sold footage to paedophiles.

According to Wales Online, he was paid £5,000 by one paedophile for sickening images and video, and was found with hundreds of images of child abuse.

The court heard that Ayoola was in contact with a 12-year-old girl online, whom he asked to expose her private parts, telling her to watch him pleasure himself.

On his arrest, he was found with a “library” of videos and pictures involving sexually abused minors.

The report stated, “In another online chat, Ayoola was in contact with a girl aged between 11 and 13-years-old and a girl aged between two and four-years-old.

“During video calls, the defendant told the older child to carry out sick sex acts and to involve the younger child in the sex acts. Ayoola was first arrested in January 2025 at his home in Cardiff and a number of devices were seized, which were found to contain indecent images of children.

“In total there were 455 category A images (four of which had been obtained through recording children), 401 category B images and 389 category C images.There were also extreme pornographic images depicting bestiality.”

According to the report, the defendant was also found to be part of online group chats on Telegram and WhatsApp in which he distributed indecent images of children.

“Paedophiles requested to buy pictures and videos from Ayoola, including 877 in total with transactions made over PayPal. He also acknowledged receipt of £5,000 from one paedophile,” it added.

During his interrogation, Ayoola said he was supplied photos of teenagers between 16 and 18 and admitted to sharing and sending them based on pressure and needs for money.

Sentencing, Judge Vanessa Francis, said, “The children you exploited were much younger than you, some were very young indeed. These children required protection and you were encouraging them to pose for extremely harmful material. This was a grievous form of sexual abuse.

“These were not simply images; they were children whose trust and vulnerability were exploited in order to make sexual material.”

He was arrested the second time on March 5, 2026, and caught with indecent images, including children as young as four-years-old which included 14 Category A images, 15 Category B images and 22 Category C images.

The court heard he was a well-behaved boy as his lawyer, Martha Smith-Higgins said her client was a young man who lost his mother at six-years-old and moved to the UK, insisting he was remorseful for his actions.

The judge dismissed claims that he was not sexually attracted to children and his crimes were not sexually motivated, therefore making him a subject to sex offender notification requirements indefinitely and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years.