By Tom Parmenter, Sky News Correspondent
Former care home boss John Allen has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 11 years.
For decades Allen, 73, ran children's homes in and around Wrexham, North Wales, and routinely subjected youngsters to sexual and violent abuse.
Last week, he was convicted by a jury at Mold Crown Court of committing historical sexual offences against 18 boys and one girl, aged between seven and 15, at his residential care properties between 1968 and 1991.
Passing sentence, Mr Justice Openshaw said: "There have no doubt been more prolific offenders but seldom can there be so many grave offences committed on so many victims over a long period of time, causing so much anguish and misery."
The judge said that at its height, 120 boys were sent into his care at Bryn Alyn by 14 different local authorities. The court also heard that later some girls were given accommodation.
Mr Justice Openshaw said most of those who were abused came from "dysfunctional, chaotic" backgrounds and needed care and protection.
Instead, they were abused by a "powerful man" whom one victim described "as like a god".
Many of Allen's victims who had given evidence during the trial returned to the court to see him sentenced.
In an exclusive interview last week, two of the men who were repeatedly abused in care told Sky News: "It is very significant for us all because it is a time to move on.
"I have already decided to move on, the words come easy but the actual actions will take some time," one of the men said.
The pair revealed other victims have recently come forward. "I know people who have disclosed to me recently from Bryn Alyn who will never get the platform we had," one of the men said.
"We weren't just there for ourselves the platform was for others who are sadly no longer with us because they have took their own lives, or because they just couldn't muster the physical strength to go through the process."
Allen, of Needham Market, Suffolk, was given a discretionary life sentence for seven serious sexual assaults.
He was given concurrent terms of 10 years for 23 indecent assaults and two years for an act of gross indecency with a child. Allen was cleared of two other serious sexual assaults.
The jury were unable to reach verdicts on three counts of indecent assault and one count of indecency with a child, all of which were allowed to lie on file.
It is the second time Allen has been convicted and sentenced at Mold Crown Court, following a previous trial over "very similar" sexual offences in 1995.
Allen has also been accused of being involved in trafficking children between the homes and paedophile rings.
The National Crime Agency's Operation Pallial, which is leading the latest investigation into the North Wales care home scandal, has not found evidence of people trafficking.
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