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Steven Scott – Southampton

08 Tuesday Jun 2021

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June 2021

Southampton pervert had thousands of indecent images of kids

A pervert who caught with thousands of indecent images of children being abused has avoided a prison sentence

Steven Thomas Scott had more than 5,000 indecent images of youngsters on various hard drives, a court heard.

These ranged from category A – the most serious type – to category C images at the lower end of the spectrum.

The 39-year-old of Chiltern Green also had almost 300 prohibited images of children – a mix of photos and videos.

Scott was identified by police during an investigation into users of a file-sharing network, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Appearing before Southampton Crown Court, he was charged with three counts of making indecent photographs of a child, a single count of distributing indecent photographs and possessing a prohibited image of a child.

He previously pleaded guilty to the offences which happened between April and December 2019.

At sentencing, Judge Peter Henry described the images as both disturbing and revolting.

However, he said there was a realistic prospect of rehabilitation.

Scott was jailed for nine months, suspended for two years.

He must complete 43 sessions on an accredited sexual offender group work programme and 60 rehabilitation activity days.

Scott was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work within the next 12 months.

Julius Edwards – Farnborough

05 Saturday Jun 2021

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June 2021

‘Cynical and highly manipulative’ former teacher jailed for sexual offences against boys

A “cynical and highly manipulative” former Hampshire teacher has been jailed after committing a number of sexual offences against two teenage boys.

Julius Edwards, formerly of Queens Road, Farnborough, “exploited” the vulnerability of his victims, one of whom described him as a “puppet master”.

Edwards, 49, “sought out teenage boys online, looking for the vulnerable”, encouraging them to exchange explicit sexual messages and images with him.

He then persuaded the victims, aged 13 and 14 at the time, to meet him in person and engage in sexual acts, leaving them “devastated by the trauma”.

Edwards was a science teacher, but these victims were not his students. He taught at the Dove House School in Basingstoke at the time of his arrest.

The “predatory paedophile” committed the sexual offences against the boys between March and April in 2020, and was convicted of 18 offences in April this year.

These included:

  • three counts of sexual activity with a boy under 16;

  • nine counts of engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a boy under 16;

  • one count of sexual assault by penetration;

  • three counts of attempting to engage in penetrative sexual activity with a boy under 16; and

  • two counts of failure to comply with a notice to provide a key.

Edwards pleaded guilty to one count of attempted sexual communication with a child at an earlier hearing, bringing the total number of offences to 19.

A sentencing hearing at Kingston Crown Court on Friday (June 4) heard how Edwards presented himself as “a caring adult”, but then groomed and sexually abused the victims.

Judge Peter Lodder said Edwards “exploited” the second victim’s vulnerabilities. He encouraged him to talk about sex, exchange intimate images, and persuaded the boy to meet him.

Addressing Edwards, Judge Lodder added: “On 8th or 9th April, you picked him up in your car, took him to a wooded area north of Guildford, and there pressed him into intimacy.”

Edwards “boasted” that he had “done these things with other lads”, including the first victim.

Sexual messages and pictures were exchanged between Edwards and the first victim, before he picked him up and drove him to a remote location for sexual activity.

A statement from the first victim read aloud in court said: “I was a really happy child until he took that from me. I have felt a sadness ever since. I cry more now than ever before.

“Since it happened, every time I go outside I feel nervous and anxious. I can’t trust anyone. I can’t trust teachers at my school because I know he [Edwards] is a teacher.”

The statement added: “He made me talk about my sex life as a 13-year-old to so many different people and my parents. This has been ultra embarrassing and upsetting.”

The court heard how Edwards “bragged” about a third boy, called ‘Liam’, who was in fact an undercover police officer pretending to be an underage child, aged 13.

Edwards approached ‘Liam’ using the name ‘don’t be shy’ online, and continued “in exactly the same way” as with the other two victims and “repeatedly” asked to meet.

On June 15, 2020, after his arrest, Edwards was asked to provide PIN codes to allow police to access his mobile devices, however he refused to do so.

He additionally submitted an application to change his name by deed poll while in prison awaiting trial, in an attempt to “try to conceal his true identity”, the judge said.

He then made an application to change his passport with that new name. However, the Passport Office was “suspicious” and it came to the attention of the officer involved in the case.

Addressing Edwards, Judge Lodder added: “Clearly this was an attempt to avoid the consequences of restrictions that would be imposed as a result of your offending.

“It is activity which is entirely consistent with the picture you present of a cynical and highly manipulative offender.”

Judge Lodder sentenced Edwards to 14 years in prison, with an extended license term of four years, and granted a restraining order in relation to the two victims.

He was also given a Sexual Harm Protection Order (SHPO) and ordered to pay a victim surcharge.

Daniel Cordory – Eastleigh

03 Thursday Jun 2021

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June 2021

Eastleigh man sentenced at Southampton Crown Court

A pervert was caught with thousands of cartoon and animated indecent images of children.

Daniel Paul Cordory had 7,148 pornographic images of youngsters stored on his desktop computer, a court heard.

Prosecution barrister, Christopher Amis, told how police had raided the 35-year-old’s home in Twyford Road, Eastleigh and a preliminary analysis of his machine revealed files of cartoon and animated-style children.

During a police interview, Cordory claimed “pop-up images of children had appeared” when he was surfing adult sites

He later told officers he had taken steps to stop the pop-ups.

The court heard how Cordory spent time playing a computer game that showed children being abused.

Mr Amis said how the defendant was in control of some of these characters, described as clearly child-like.

However, he added: “There is in fact no victim because the images are cartoon.”

Appearing before Southampton Crown Court, Cordory was charged with a single count of possessing prohibited images of a child – he pleaded guilty to the offence having been arrested in July last year.

His stash of images was described in court documents as grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character.

Cordory has no previous convictions and Chris Gaiger, defending, argued that there was the prospect of rehabilitation.

Judge Nicholas Rowland gave him a 24-month community order to include 40 rehabilitation days and 150 hours of unpaid work.

He was made the subject of a five-year sexual harm prevention order.

Mark Burgess – Portsmouth

01 Tuesday Jun 2021

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December 2021: Paedophile choirmaster has lost a bid to clear his name after being jailed for abusing 13 children.

Mark Burgess, 68, jailed at Portsmouth Crown Court

SURVIVORS of child sex offences confronted their abuser in court as he was handed a 40-year sentence.

Mark Burgess, 68, of St Chad’s Avenue, Portsmouth, was branded a “conniving and exploitative serial paedophile” at the city’s crown court.

Burgess, who abused children over a period of nearly four decades, will spend at least 21 years in jail before being considered for parole.

He was charged with offences relating to 13 children, all of whom were under the age of 16 during his time as a choirmaster at All Saints Church in Portsmouth and St John’s Church in Westbourne, Sussex.

He was found guilty on May 28 following a lengthy trial.

Burgess was convicted of 26 counts of indecent assault, 15 counts of gross indecency with a child, four counts of buggery, one count of attempted indecent assault, and two counts of sexual activity with a child.

During the trial Portsmouth Crown Court heard Burgess had previously been a music teacher as well as a choir master.

He taught at Portsmouth City Boys’ School as well as running choirs at the two churches.

May 2021

Portsmouth choirmaster trial: Mark Burgess guilty of abuse

A former choirmaster and school teacher has been found guilty of sexually abusing children for over 30 years.

Mark Burgess, 68, from Hilsea, Portsmouth, was convicted of offences involving 13 children under the age of 16, between 1976 and 2009.

A jury at Portsmouth Crown Court found him guilty of 48 offences.

Judge William Ashworth said Burgess could expect to receive a “lengthy custodial sentence” over the “horrendous course of child sex abuse”.

The 12-week trial heard offences were committed while Burgess was a choirmaster for the All Saints church choir in Portsmouth, and Westbourne choir in Sussex.

Prosecutors told Portsmouth Crown Court complainants also recalled being given alcohol and cigarettes before being abused.

Burgess was found guilty of 26 counts of indecent assault, 15 counts of gross indecency with a child, four counts of buggery, one count of attempted indecent assault and two counts of sexual activity with a child.

During the trial, the judge directed the jury to return not guilty verdicts on two counts of gross indecency with a child and one count of buggery.

Burgess carried out the abuse during piano lessons at his home, in the church vestry, his car or the school music room.

He was brought to trial after a number of his victims reported the abuse to the police.

In a joint statement, some of the victims, said: “The extent of Mark Burgess’s abuse on all of us has been shocking and has turned our worlds upside down.”

Burgess was remanded in custody to reappear for sentencing on 30 June.

Brian Rutledge – Gosport

28 Friday May 2021

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May 2021

Disgraced priest from Gosport jailed for nine years for raping boy, 15, in traumatising sex attack

A paedophile Catholic priest who raped a boy whispered to him ‘you have been chosen by god’ before his sickening sex attack.

Predatory pensioner Brian Rutledge, of St Georges Walk, Gosport, has been jailed for nine years for his crime after being convicted of two counts of indecent assault on a boy under 16 and one count of buggery with a boy under 16 following a trial at Reading Crown Court.

The offences all occurred in the 1980s when Rutledge – now 82 – was a parish priest at a church in Reading.

The disgraced priest had set up and run a number of clubs for boys while at the church.

His victim, then aged 15, was a member of one of the groups when he was targeted by the twisted pervert.

During a stay at Rutledge’s home, the youngster was sexually abused and raped.

The victim had woken to find Rutledge sitting on his bed and he told the victim that he had been ‘chosen by god’ before clambering into bed with him and molesting him.

After carrying out his sex attack, depraved Rutledge then told the boy not to tell anyone about what had happened, saying that keeping it as a secret was good practice for when the youngster became a priest.

The court was told that Rutledge was also jailed in 2008 after he was sentenced to four years and 10 months in prison after indecently assaulting a 17-year-old, as well as a 15-year-old boy

May 2008

Ex-priest jailed for sex attacks

A former Catholic priest has been jailed for sexually abusing two teenage boys in the 1980s.

Brian Rutledge, 69, was found guilty at Southampton Crown Court in March of attempting a sex assault on a boy aged 17 while he was staying at his house.

He earlier admitted indecently assaulting the 17-year-old, as well as a 15-year-old boy.

Rutledge of Waldegrave Close, Woolston, Southampton, has been sentenced to four years and 10 months in prison.

During his trial, the court heard Rutledge befriended the 17-year-old at a religious camp in Shropshire in 1975.

He later invited the boy, whose father was a naval officer, to stay at his home.