A convicted child rapist who engaged in explicit online chat with a 12-year-old girl, encouraging her to engage in sexual activity, has been jailed by a judge who concluded he was a dangerous offender.
Connor Naylor, now 20, was sentenced in 2018 for raping a young girl when he was aged in his mid-teens. He received a detention and training order for two years as punishment and was placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years.
But over the course of four months, between March and July 2020, Naylor struck up an online relationship with a girl he met on a gaming site. Their initial communication became sexual and in that time period, he asked the girl for indecent images and also sent them in return.
She had told Naylor she was 16 and repeated this to him despite the defendant having been contacted by her father and told she was aged only 12.
In July 2020, the girl’s sister was looking at her email account and found evidence of the illegal explicit contact.
Police were contacted and, when Naylor’s phone was examined, indecent still and moving images of the girl were found on WhatsApp.
In interview, Naylor, of Burneside, agreed he was contacted by the girl’s father but said she had claimed to be 16 when he challenged her.
Naylor admitted four offences: abusing a child aged under 13 to engage in sexual activity; causing a child to watch a sexual act; and possession of indecent photographs of a child. Eight of these were classed in category A — the most serious — and 50 in category C.
Carlisle Crown Court heard Naylor was deemed to be emotionally immature, suffered from Asperger syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, had been bullied at school and been unable to form age-appropriate relationships.
A probation officer concluded he was remorseful and reflective in respect of his latest offences and had made no attempt to minimise his criminal conduct.
Judge Simon Medland QC acknowledged Naylor’s personal problems as he handed down a 32-month custodial sentence. He imposed an extended three-year licence period, concluding that Naylor continued to pose a risk of serious harm to members of the public.
Naylor must sign the sex offenders’ register and follow the strict terms of a prevention order, both indefinitely.
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