Six stories from one small county in the English Midlands
All from the past month from a county with barely 1m people
This is not to say the Derbyshire is unusual in any way
It is just an example of what is happening all over the UK
And, all over the western world
Nine arrests have been made in Derbyshire for
child grooming and sexual abuse
By Burton Mail By Isaac Crowson
An investigation into child grooming and sex abuse in Derbyshire has resulted in nine arrests. Derbyshire police launched the operation after a girl came forward to say that a number of men had groomed and sexually abused her.
Seven more alleged victims have been identified as part of the inquiry, run by Derbyshire Constabulary's Child Exploitation Investigation unit.
One suspect has been charged with 14 offences against seven individuals and is now being held in custody prior to trial.
Charges include rape of a child, inciting a child to prostitution and supplying controlled drugs. The other men are on bail as the investigation continues.
Police have not disclosed where in Derbyshire the offences took place and no further details have been released. The offences are included in a report which will be put before Derbyshire police's Chief Constable Mick Creedon and Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhinsa at a public meeting at the force's headquarters in Ripley on Monday.
A statement in the report says: "In January 2017 a report was made to social care that a young female had been groomed and sexually abused by a number of different males in the preceding months.
"This investigation was taken on by the Child Exploitation Investigation Unit. A further seven victims were identified and nine male suspects have been arrested."
It says the man currently in custody "has been charged with 14 offences against seven victims ranging from rape of a child under 13 in December 2012 to inciting a child to prostitution and supplying controlled drugs".
It adds the investigation is ongoing in relation to the other alleged offenders and victims.
Any odds on whether these perverts are all Pakistani?
Derbyshire, UK
Pervert jailed for 15 years after targeting
children in Derbyshire
By Isaac Crowson
Andrew Pykett and Warwick Crown Court. Picture of the court courtesy of Coventry Telegraph.
Inset: Andrew Pykett, Main image: Warwick Crown Court, at the Warwickshire Justice Centre.
A pervert has been jailed for targeting children across the UK - including in Derbyshire.
Andrew Pykett has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to 38 child sex offences and two drug offences.
Victims were from Chesterfield and other places including South Yorkshire, Essex, London, Wiltshire, South Wales, Nottingham, Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle and Cleveland, Tennessee, in the US.
He pleaded guilty to 20 counts of sexual activity with a child, seven counts of meeting a child following sexual grooming, two counts of attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming and one count of count of trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation.
Derbyshire has a population of about 1 million. It boasts only 2 cities of more than 100,000
- Derby and Chesterfield.
Overseal Manor School:
Pair face historical sex charges
From BBC Derby
The men are due to appear before magistrates on 31 May
Two men have been charged over alleged historical sex abuse at a special school more than 30 years ago.
The abuse is reported to have taken place at Overseal Manor School in Derbyshire between 1979 and 1985.
Christopher May, 71, from Llanfyllin, Powys, is charged with 11 offences, including two counts of gross indecency with a boy under the age of 14.
Terrence Butler, 72, from Stretton in Staffordshire, is charged with four offences, including false imprisonment.
Derbyshire Police confirmed both men were employees at the school, which closed in 1997, but gave no further details about what their jobs were.
Mr May is also charged with two counts of indecent assault of a boy under 16, one count of grievous bodily harm and six counts of actual bodily harm.
Mr Butler is also charged with three counts of actual bodily harm.
Both men are due to appear at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court on 31 May.
Seven former child footballers in Derbyshire
say they were abused by coaches
By Isaac Crowson
SV2 is working with former footballers who say they were abused as children
Seven former child footballers in Derbyshire have come forward to say they were abused by their coaches.
The ex-boy players, now all grown men, say they were abused as children by "powerful and imposing" coaches who could "make or break futures".
Derbyshire-based charity Supporting Victims of Sexual Violence said the men have come forward after allegations were made public against former coach Barry Bennell, 63, who last month denied 20 child sex offences against four boys between 1980 and 1987 - more than half of which are alleged to have happened in Derbyshire. He will reappear on July 3 at Liverpool Crown Court.
Sally Goodwin, chief executive of the charity, known as SV2, said the football victims had only found the bravery to come forward after allegations against Bennell surfaced. Before those claims came to light, the charity, which is based in Codnor, was working with no football victims.
Derby pensioner Bryan Wren jailed for
sexually assaulting four-year-old girl
By Martin_Naylor
A 69-year-old Derby man has been jailed for more than three years after sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl.
Bryan Wren had denied the charge, which dated back to December 2015 and took place at a house in the city. His crime came to light when the victim told her parents she had been "touched" by Wren and they contacted the police.
He was arrested and questioned over the allegation and denied anything had happened. But Wren, of Mundy Street, was found guilty by a jury following a trial at Derby Crown Court.
Derby Crown Court, UK
Rapist has been jailed for 18 years after
sexually assaulting two girls
By Burton Mail
By Martin Naylor
A rapist from Derbyshire has been jailed for 18 years after sexually assaulting two girls. Derby Crown Court was told Peter Parker's offences dated back to the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The 50-year-old was accused of specimen charges of sexually assaulting one girl and raping another, both under the age of 18, over the course of several years. He had denied the charges and took the case to trial, where he faced two counts of indecent assault, one count of rape and one of gross indecency.
Parker, of Griffin Close, Alvaston, in Derby, pleaded not guilty to the offences but was convicted by a jury at the crown court. He has now been jailed for 18 years and must sign the sex offenders' register for life.
Detective Inspector Steve Shaw, who leads a team of detectives investigating sexual offences in Derby, said Parker's conviction proved how seriously such reports are taken. He said: "The offences in this case date back nearly three decades and it is purely thanks to the courage and determination of his victims that Parker has finally been brought to justice. He might have felt that he would escape punishment for his crimes, but this case proves that no matter how long ago these offences take place, we will pour all our efforts into investigating them.
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