An individual who spiked sweets with tranquilliser and provided them to children at a summer program in the area has pleaded guilty to sexual offences against two young males aged between nine and ten.
The accused was detained after eight youngsters and one adult fell ill at the facility in mid-summer.
The senior citizen, from Ruddington in Nottinghamshire, confessed to a multiple criminal counts when he stood at the judicial center on the end of the week.
Yet, he refused to admit one particular crime he was accused of, which was against a young boy.
The accused was kept in jail prior to a additional proceeding on late November.
'Treat game'
The prosecutor, presenting evidence, detailed the criminal behavior to the judicial body.
She explained his victims were disadvantaged youngsters who were staying at a summer program which he managed.
Ruben engaged in a "sweet game" with the youngsters, the prosecutor said, in which he would go into the children's bedrooms when they were settling down and tell them to eat sweets "as quickly as they can".
She told the court the man had conducted this practice with the boys "repeatedly", and children had earlier experienced illness the next day.
She explained the defendant had been capable of justifying this for many years as the children being "overwrought by enjoyment", until his stepchild had suspicions in recently.
The prosecutor stated further: "This year his stepson had worries about the activities, justifiably.
"They resolved" to examine in the man's possessions."
Mrs Prior KC said objects including lubricant, petroleum jelly and syringes were found, and his stepson alerted the authorities about his worries.
She stated Ruben proceeded to conduct the "candy game" with six boys that time - July 26th - and they were all ill the subsequent day.
"The police had not gone out by that time," she continued.
The regulatory agency, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, earlier informed that it was examining Leicestershire Police's handling of the events.
The legal representative said the minors were struggling to walk due to their sickness, so the family member notified the police a second time.
She explained the defendant then played the "candy game" in a space of five children.
