Man who sexually abused child jailed - The Stratford Observer
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Man who sexually abused child jailed

A FORMER south Warwickshire man who sexually abused a child has been jailed for six years after detectives raided his home and uncovered a raft of evidence against him.

Benjamin Stafford – who was living in Bidford at that time – was found in possession of indecent images of children.

Detectives seized his devices and uncovered hundreds of extreme images together with evidence the 34-year-old he had sexually abused a child.

Stafford, who now lives in Pershore in Worcestershire, gave two no-comment interviews, but detectives built such a strong case against him that he ultimately pleaded guilty to assaulting a child under 13 by touching, making indecent photographs of a child, taking indecent photographs of a child, possession of an extreme images of an animals, possession of a prohibited images of a child, attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and distributing indecent photographs of a child.