Locations
Tenterden Road, Golford, Cranbrook, TN17
Description
A sex offender has been jailed after targeting teenagers in Tenterden in November 2023.
On Friday 3 November and Monday 6 November 2023, Joseph Kemp, 33, approached teenage girls in the Ashford Road area of the town and made inappropriate comments to them.
Investigation
The girls reported the incidents and, following an investigation by the East Kent Vulnerability Investigation Team, Kemp was charged on Thursday 9 November.
Kemp, of Tenterden Road, Cranbrook, pleaded guilty to two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and two counts of attempting to engage in sexual activity in the presence of a child.
Jailed
He was sentenced to three years and seven months’ imprisonment at Canterbury Crown Court on Thursday 14 March 2024.