Published date: 29 February 2016 |
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A RHYL man has been jailed for four and a half years for a series of sex offences.
Gerrard Stephen Jones, aged 53, was ordered to register with the police as a sex offender for life.
An indefinite sexual harm prevention order was made to curb his future activities.
He admitted sexual activity with two young girls – and a charge of voyeurism where he set up a video camera in a room to film her changing.
Jones, of Brighton Road in Rhyl, also admitted downloading indecent images of children from the internet and possessing extreme images of bestiality.
Mold Crown Court heard how he had admitted the images offences initially but denied the other behaviour.
Judge Niclas Parry told him that slowly but surely he had come to terms with what he had done and admitted serious sexual offences.
He had targeted young girls who were vulnerable.
The defendant had fondled them – one over her clothing and another under her clothing.
They were particularly worrying offences.
He had set up a camera to view a girl naked for his own sexual gratification and it was all set against a background of “distorted fantasies” and the downloading of images which showed his interest in the abuse of children.
There had been an element of grooming and targeting, he said.
Under the sexual harm prevention order, he is not to have any unsupervised contact with females under 16.
It also controls his use of the internet – he must not delete the history of internet use and he is not to have any file sharing software.
Prosecuting barrister Anna Price told how complaints of a sexual nature had been made against him by two different teenage girls.
An examination of his computer showed that he had more than 1,500 images and more than 80 movies of an indecent nature – many of them classified as extreme involving sex acts with animals.
It also emerged that he had set up a video camera in a room to watch a girl changing.
She reported the matter when she noticed a red light on a camera which indicated that it was filming.
Defending barrister Sarah Yates said that the best mitigation was his guilty pleas.
He was candid and accepted what he had done.
Some of the offences had been committed under the influence of alcohol but he accepted full responsibility.
The defendant had lost everything, he had lost his own family and his job. It would change his life forever.
He was lightly convicted, he had never been to custody before, but he took a realistic approach to the position he now found himself in, said Miss Yates.
Gerrard Stephen Jones, aged 53, was ordered to register with the police as a sex offender for life.
An indefinite sexual harm prevention order was made to curb his future activities.
He admitted sexual activity with two young girls – and a charge of voyeurism where he set up a video camera in a room to film her changing.
Jones, of Brighton Road in Rhyl, also admitted downloading indecent images of children from the internet and possessing extreme images of bestiality.
Mold Crown Court heard how he had admitted the images offences initially but denied the other behaviour.
Judge Niclas Parry told him that slowly but surely he had come to terms with what he had done and admitted serious sexual offences.
He had targeted young girls who were vulnerable.
The defendant had fondled them – one over her clothing and another under her clothing.
They were particularly worrying offences.
He had set up a camera to view a girl naked for his own sexual gratification and it was all set against a background of “distorted fantasies” and the downloading of images which showed his interest in the abuse of children.
There had been an element of grooming and targeting, he said.
Under the sexual harm prevention order, he is not to have any unsupervised contact with females under 16.
It also controls his use of the internet – he must not delete the history of internet use and he is not to have any file sharing software.
Prosecuting barrister Anna Price told how complaints of a sexual nature had been made against him by two different teenage girls.
An examination of his computer showed that he had more than 1,500 images and more than 80 movies of an indecent nature – many of them classified as extreme involving sex acts with animals.
It also emerged that he had set up a video camera in a room to watch a girl changing.
She reported the matter when she noticed a red light on a camera which indicated that it was filming.
Defending barrister Sarah Yates said that the best mitigation was his guilty pleas.
He was candid and accepted what he had done.
Some of the offences had been committed under the influence of alcohol but he accepted full responsibility.
The defendant had lost everything, he had lost his own family and his job. It would change his life forever.
He was lightly convicted, he had never been to custody before, but he took a realistic approach to the position he now found himself in, said Miss Yates.
SEE-http://www.rhyljournal.co.uk/news/159183/rhyl-man-jailed-and-ordered-to-register-as-a-sex-offender-for-life.aspx
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