June 2021

Worksop paedophile fantasised online with another sex using forbidden laptop

A Worksop paedophile fantasised about performing sexual acts on children with another convicted sex offender using a laptop he was forbidden from owning

Prosecutor Lauren Pitman described how Rouse failed to tell officers about a laptop he possessed when they interviewed him on May 28, last year.

Russell Yeomans, 58, of Wilford, Nottingham sent the image to the child in 2019, setting in place a chain of events that would eventually see him jailed for 22 years.

After the image was discovered on the victim’s phone she was encouraged to speak to support staff at her school.

She then revealed several incidents of sexual abuse that had happened at an address in Nottinghamshire.

Detectives opened an investigation and later received additional complaints from two further victims who had learned about the investigation.

The women, now adults, explained Yeomans had abused them in the 1970s and 80s.

One of the victims disclosed a pattern of sexual abuse that started when she was just seven years old and ended with three incidents of rape when she was a teenager.

Yeomans, of Monks Way, Wilford, refused to comment in his first police interview and denied all the allegations against him.

He later admitted to sending the explicit image to the girl and pleaded guilty to one count of causing a child to watch / look at an image of sexual activity, and one count of inciting a girl under 16 to engage in sexual activity.

After a two-week trial at Nottingham Crown Court he was convicted by a jury of a total of 14 offences – two sexual assault of a child under 13, eight indecent assaults on a child under 14, three rapes and one act of gross indecency with a child under 14.

Appearing for sentence on Friday 14 May Yeomans was jailed for 22 years.

May 2021

Mansfield dad shared sick child abuse images on Facebook

A Mansfield dad who shared sick child abuse images on Facebook has been warned he faces prison if he offends again.

Police received information about the offence in late 2018, and executed a warrant at Stephen Pegg’s home in Warsop, on June 11, 2019, Nottingham Crown Court heard on Wednesday.

Between February 2013 and June 2019, he downloaded 46 still images and 117 videos that were rated as Category A, 37 stills and 43 videos at Category B, and 25 stills and six videos at Category C, where “A” is the most extreme.

Prosecutor Esther Harrison said most of the Category A images showed boys aged 12-14, and that images from all categories were sent to nine other users over a six month period.

When he was interviewed by police, Pegg claimed he “sent the videos because he had been asked to, and they had sent videos back.”

“He said he didn’t think it was illegal if it was shared outside the UK,” Ms Harrison said.

The court heard Pegg, who has learning difficulties, had been warned by Facebook. He told officers it was “disgraceful” and that he regretted it.

Pegg, 52, of Wellington Close, Warsop, pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images, three counts of distribution and one count of possessing an extreme pornographic image.

Judge Stuart Rafferty QC told Paul Wright, mitigating: “He deserves to go to prison for any number of reasons, but given his difficulties I will suspend it.”

He told Pegg: “It doesn’t take much thought by anybody to realise that children who are seen in pornographic videos don’t want to be doing it.

“People are off camera waiting to batter them if they don’t pretend to be happy. Sadly their lives are damaged.

“People like you are simply making them more unhappy and taking their dignity away from them.”

The judge sentenced him to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, with a two-year community order and 60 rehabilitation days.

A five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order was imposed, and his computers were forfeited and destroyed.

“Take the help that is going to be given to you and stay out of trouble,” the judge told Pegg.

April 2021

Nottinghamshire man jailed for 30 years after multiple rapes of teenage girl

A convicted paedophile who controlled and raped a schoolgirl multiple times, including on his wedding night, has been locked up for 30 years.

The court heard of the historic abuse a girl suffered at the hands of Jason Guzikowski, which started when she was just 13 years old and who preyed on her vulnerability. The first rape happened in 1997 and throughout the next two years, multiple rapes followed.

Contact stopped when the victim was 15, and both moved to different areas of the country.

But by 2012, Guzikowski was back in contact with the victim and he continued his abuse.

The trail of historic abuse was reported to Nottinghamshire Police in 2019, and today (Wednesday 28 April 2021), 51-year-old Guzikowski,  of Vale Road, Mansfield Woodhouse, was handed a 30-year sentence at Nottingham Crown Court after being found guilty of eight counts of rape.

Guzikowski had previously served a four-and-a-half year sentence for sexual offences committed against children and adults.

April 2021

Man sentenced after 12,500 child sex abuse images discovered by police