Michael Guy, a pervert who sexually groomed three girls and also kept child abuse pictures, including some of babies being abused has been jailed for three years
Michael Guy, 56, plied the girls with alcohol and two of them got drunk.
He made sexual comments to the girls aged between 12 and 14, and tickled one of them. One of the girls told her uncle, after Guy told them not to tell their parents.
The defendant was arrested and police found more than 300 indecent photos of children on a computer and discs at his home, Burnley Crown Court was told.
Guy, who has convictions for unlawful sexual intercourse from 1978 and indecent assault, was later said to have commented he would have tried to have sex with one of them.
Guy, of Spring Street, Rishton, admitted three counts of sexual grooming and 11 allegations of possessing an indecent photo of a child.
He was jailed for three years, given an indefinite sexual offences prevention order, banning him from having children in his home, and barred from working with children and ordered to sign the sexual offenders’ register for life.
Jon Close, prosecuting, told the court one of the girls said she told Guy her age and another said she was wearing her school uniform at his house.
On one occasion, Mr Close said the defendant tickled one of the girls. She became uncomfortable and the girls left.
They returned three days later, Guy apologised and specifically asked them not to tell their parents, as they might take it the wrong way.
Guy was arrested on February 3 and police seized a laptop, CDs and physical photos of girls.
On the computer, police discovered 148 indecent images – 114 at level one, the lowest, five at level two, six at level three, 22 at level four and one at level five. The discs had on them 190 pictures at level one, one at level three and nine at level four. The pictures showed children aged from babies to 12.
Philip Holden, for Guy, said there was no coercion or intimidation of the girls.
Sentencing, Judge Andrew Woolman said the images were ‘quite disgusting’ and parts of Guy’s pre-sentence report were disturbing.
May 2013
Rishton man faces jail for sexual grooming
A RISHTON man who has confessed to meeting three schoolgirls after ‘sexual grooming’ has been told he faces jail.
Michael Guy, 56, was also discovered with a stash of child pornography by Lancashire Police when he was arrested, Burnley Crown Court was told.
Guy, of Spring Street, admitted three offences of meeting a child following sexual grooming. One victim was said to have been aged just 12.
He also pleaded guilty to 11 offences of possession of indecent images, at least 23 of which are in the two most serious categories of child pornography.
Guy denied one offence of sexual assault, involving the 12-year-old, and prosecutor Michael Lavery said it was not in the public interest to proceed with that allegation, given his pleas to the other offences. The defendant was remanded in custody for probation reports to be prepared and will be sentenced on June 14. Adjourning the case, Judge Simon Newell said: “I am ordering a pre-sentence report, but you must expect custody.”