Locations
Selby Road, Holme On Spalding Moor, YO43
Description
A Yorkshire teen rapist who filmed himself carrying out his sick attack has been jailed for five years.
Cameron Kyle Edwards, 19, raped a 14-year-old girl at a house in a North Yorkshire village in December 2020. He was arrested the same day after the victim was able to identify Edwards to officers.
Following the arrest, police discovered 6,200 indecent images on his phone, many of which were category A, which is considered the most serious. Edwards had also filmed himself sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl during a separate incident.
Edwards, of Selby Road, Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, pleaded guilty to eleven sex offences when he appeared at York Crown Court on November 7 in 2022. The offences include one count of rape, three counts of assault by penetration, three counts of sexual assault, three counts of making indecent photographs of children and one count of possessing extreme phonography.
On April 28, he was sentenced to 65 months detention in a Young Offenders Institute. He has also been issued with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order until and ordered to sign the sex offenders register indefinitely.
North Yorkshire Police investigating officer Detective Constable Martin Willoughby, said: "First of all I would like to comment on the bravery of the two victims which helped secure the conviction of Edwards today. The pattern of behaviour shown by Edwards is extremely worrying and demonstrated how it quickly escalated into the serious offences which he will now spend time in prison for.
I know the sentence will never undo the anguish Edwards put his victims through but I hope it will go some way to reassure them, knowing he now off the streets of North Yorkshire for some time.