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Jul 2020
Harrogate child sex offender jailed for 3 years
A child sex abuser from Harrogate has been jailed for 3 years at York Crown Court.
Daniel John Gresham, aged 34, was arrested in March this year. Police seized electronic devices from his home which were analysed by North Yorkshire Police's Digital Forensics Unit.
The Online Abuse & Exploitation Team identified Gresham as the person responsible for making indecent images of children. Detectives were then able to prove that he had been sexually abusing the girl in the images over a 2 year period from 2013 and that he had then shared the images online earlier this year.
Gresham had earlier pleaded guilty to sexual touching a girl aged under 13 and also making and distributing indecent images of the same girl.
As well as being imprisoned for 3 years Gresham was made subject to a 15 year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and placed on the sex offenders’ register.
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Detective Sergeant Lee Allenby, of the Online Abuse and Exploitation Team, said:
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