A convicted child sex offender has avoided jail after he was found to be communicating with an adolescent girl.
Police conducting a risk review at the home of Rachel Smith in July 2020 discovered that the 56-year-old convicted pedophile had been engaging in “regular contact” with a 14-year-old girl via Instagram.
Mr Smith pleaded guilty to breaching the sexual harm prevention order, and was sentenced to a three-year community order.
Explaining the sentence, Judge Robert Spragg said the transgender-identifying pedophile would be “vulnerable and easily exploited” if placed in prison.
The judge claimed that the public will be best protected by Mr Smith having added intervention from the authorities, rather than a prison sentence, as there was “nothing overtly sexual in the chats.”
The pedophile, who is male and identifies as a woman, also escaped a prison sentence in 2018 when he was convicted of making indecent photographs of children. At the time, a judge handed Mr Smith a six-month sentence suspended for two years and subjected him to a 10-year sexual harm prevention order forbidding him from having unsupervised or online contact with children under 16.
Amongst Mr Smith’s 50 prior convictions is a 1994 count of indecent assault.
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Police conducting a risk review at the home of Rachel Smith in July 2020 discovered that the 56-year-old convicted pedophile had been engaging in “regular contact” with a 14-year-old girl via Instagram.
Mr Smith pleaded guilty to breaching the sexual harm prevention order, and was sentenced to a three-year community order.
Explaining the sentence, Judge Robert Spragg said the transgender-identifying pedophile would be “vulnerable and easily exploited” if placed in prison.
The judge claimed that the public will be best protected by Mr Smith having added intervention from the authorities, rather than a prison sentence, as there was “nothing overtly sexual in the chats.”
The pedophile, who is male and identifies as a woman, also escaped a prison sentence in 2018 when he was convicted of making indecent photographs of children. At the time, a judge handed Mr Smith a six-month sentence suspended for two years and subjected him to a 10-year sexual harm prevention order forbidding him from having unsupervised or online contact with children under 16.
Amongst Mr Smith’s 50 prior convictions is a 1994 count of indecent assault.
Transgender Child sëx Offender Too “Vulnerable and Easily Exploited” for Prison, Judge Rules Continu
UK — Tyne, England. A convicted child sëx offender has avoided jail after he was found to be communicating with an adolescent girl. Police conducting a risk review at the home of Rachel Smith in July 2020 discovered that the 56-year-old convicted pedophile had been engaging in “regular contact”...
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