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The paedophiles recently in court that you should know about
This includes a child rapist and even a pervert who asked a teen for sex and suggested they could make “a lot of money” from making an Only Fans.
Some of the names listed below have been jailed – one for as long as 18 years – while all have been forced to sign the sex offenders’ register.
Read some of the sickening stories of the people you need to be aware about below:
Connor Wright
“Twisted” paedophile Connor Wright sexually assaulted two young children and forced them to watch graphic content.
Over the period of two months, the 32-year-old assaulted two children and told them not to tell anyone about the abuse, saying it was “their secret”.
He showed them graphic sexual content, incited them to engage in sexual activity, and took indecent images and videos of them.
Wright was arrested on July 25, last year and his phone was seized for examination.
More than a 100 indecent and prohibited images and videos of children were found, with four being graded as category A, the worst category.
Wright, of York Road in Middlesbrough, was arrested and charged with 25 offences including making indecent images of children, possessing prohibited images of children, voyeurism, rape and sexual assault.
He pleaded guilty to all offences and was jailed for 18 years, and an extra five years on licence, at Teesside Crown Court on November 7.
Michael Parr
Pervert Michael Parr was snared by a group of paedophile hunters when sending sexually explicit messages to ‘children’.
The 41-year-old encouraged the young girls, who were actually decoys, to perform sex acts on themselves before sending a naked picture of himself.
Parr spent almost two months sending the increasingly sexual messages to the decoys posing as a 12 and 14-year-old girl, Teesside Crown Court heard.
Parr even sent a ‘how to guide’ to carry out sexual behaviour and sent a photograph of his own genitals to one of the undercover decoys.
Parr, of Middleham Close, Ouston, Chester-le-Street, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and one of attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity between September and October last year.
Caroline McGurk, mitigating, said Parr accepted he would be punished and that ‘his life has been blown apart and will never be the same again’.
Parr was jailed for 32 months for his persistent and protracted attempt to engage in sexual communication with children and was ordered to sign on the sex offenders’ register for life.
Adam Fowler
Spennymoor paedophile Adam Fowler asked a teenage girl for sex and suggested they could make a film – and “a lot of money” – by posting it on OnlyFans.
The 36-year-old messaged the girl asking for nude pictures and paid her for explicit videos of her and her boyfriend.
But when she rejected his request for sex, Fowler, who had previously paid her “tens of pounds” for a number of videos she sent him, grabbed her thigh and kissed her.
Fowler, of Lakeside Court, was arrested and his mobile phone seized, where officers found more than 100 indecent images of children.
He was later charged with a number of offences, including inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, sexual activity with a child, paying a child for sexual services, and several counts of making indecent images of a child.
He was also charged with causing a child to look at an image of sexual activity, after sending another girl naked images of himself on Snapchat.
He admitted making indecent images of child and paying a child for sexual services, but denied the remaining charges.
However, Fowler, who was previously of good character, later changed his pleas to guilty ahead of a Durham Crown Court trial.
Johnny Walker, mitigating for Fowler, said since tendering his guilty pleas, “a decision of good sense”, the defendant has been remanded in custody for the first time.
He was jailed for six years and four months on October 22.
He was also handed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a ten-year restraining order preventing him from having any contact with the girl.
Stephen MacDonald
Pervert Stephen MacDonald had so many indecent images of children stored on his digital device that police were unable to categorise them all.
MacDonald had more than 7,256 child sex abuse images stashed away with a further 8,000 containing ‘borderline’ content, Teesside Crown Court heard.
The 42-year-old was arrested after a tip-off about his online activity and images were found on a computer, a laptop, a hard drive and three mobile phones.
Some of the children in the images were as young as three or four and described as being in “discernible pain or distress”.
He said there were another 8,000 borderline images recovered from MacDonald’s stash of two million stored images.
MacDonald, of Ormesby Close, Hartlepool, pleaded guilty to possession of 34 Category A images – the worst kind; 21 Category B images and 7,256 Category C images, which he had downloaded over 16 years.
Rachel Kelly, mitigating, said her client had no previous convictions until he pleaded guilty to the charges at the earliest opportunity.
He was sentenced to 16 months in custody, suspended for two years and was ordered to attend 30 rehabilitation activity requirement days and carry out 100 hours of unpaid work.
MacDonald was ordered to sign on the sex offenders’ register for ten years and was made subject of a sexual harm prevention order of the same length.
Kane Povey
“Dangerous and predatory” child rapist Kane Povey was first arrested after officers received a report of sexual assault and rape of a primary school-aged child back in 2022.
The 24-year-old was then charged with three counts of rape of a child under 13 and three counts of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity.
Povey, of Devonshire Street in Stockton, continued to deny any wrongdoing, and a trial began in September this year; however, mid trial, he changed his plea and admitted all charges.
He was jailed for 11 years, plus one year out on licence, at Teesside Crown Court on November 10. He will be placed on the sex offenders’ register, and will be subject to a SHPO (sexual harm prevention order) for life.
