Locations
Landrake Crescent, Reading, Berkshire, RG2
Description
A 29-year-old man from Reading has been jailed for nine years after being found guilty of a string of sexual offences against a 12-year-old girl in Egham.
James Tough, from Landrake Crescent, was convicted on Wednesday, September 30 of a total of five charges between March and October 2013.
These included causing / inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity – no penetration, making an indecent photograph of a child under 13, sexual assault by penetration and two sexual assaults by touching.
Tough has also been given a sexual harm order and will be on the sex offenders' register for life.
"Predatory sexual offender"
Detective Inspector Paddy Mayers from the Surrey and Sussex major crime team, who led the investigation, said: "James Tough is a predatory sexual offender who groomed and assaulted a 12-year-old girl over a lengthy period of time.
"The victim first reported the offences in October 2013 and has shown extreme courage in coming forward and helping to ensure that he was brought to justice.
"Tough committed these offences after gaining the trust of the victim’s mother and took full advantage of that trust for his own gratification."