Overview
- At Lincoln Crown Court, Judge Simon Hirst imposed a 21-year jail term with lifetime sex‑offender registration, a lifelong sexual harm prevention order, and a six‑year licence extension.
- Joshua Springer pleaded guilty to nine counts of rape and three counts of making indecent photographs of children.
- Six rape counts concerned three elderly residents at the Lincolnshire care home where he worked, with three further counts relating to a younger victim in North Yorkshire.
- He was first arrested after a colleague interrupted an attack last summer, and he later told his mother on FaceTime, “Mum, I’m guilty,” prompting her to alert police.
- Investigators found phone videos of all four assaults and more than 760 indecent images, including babies, and DNA linked him to a victim; police have appealed for further victims and noted his aliases Joshua Kearney and Joshua Kearney Springer.