Camp leader who abused boys after lacing sweets is ‘sadistic, monstrous paedophile’, wife says as he is jailed
Summer camp sex offender jailed for drugging and abusing children
- Jon Ruben, a 76-year-old summer camp leader, has been jailed for 23 years and 10 months for sexually abusing young boys after sedating them with tranquiliser-laced sweets in Stathern.
- He pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two boys, child cruelty towards six others, administering a noxious substance to his wife, making indecent images of children, and drug charges.
- His wife, Susan Ruben, described him in court as a “sadistic, monstrous paedophile” and revealed she has begun divorce proceedings.
- Ruben's actions were premeditated, involving the use of his veterinary knowledge to research and administer sedatives, which he believed to be Temazepam but was liquid Xanax.
- The court heard that Ruben had run holiday camps for disadvantaged children for decades, and his arrest followed eight children and an adult falling ill at the camp last July.
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