Locations
North Road, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10
Description
A man from St Helens has been jailed for 13 and a half years for sexually assaulting a child and sharing images of the abuse online.
Andrew Haddock, 29, of North Road, who pleaded guilty to making and taking indecent images of a child and distributing those images to others online, was sentenced today, Thursday 28 March, at Liverpool Crown Court and told he must serve a minimum of nine years of his overall sentence.
He was also given a lifetime Sexual Harm Prevention Order, made to sign the Sexual Offender Register for life and given an indefinite restraining order.
Following an investigation, Haddock was arrested in July 2023 after he boasted about his abuse online to an undercover police officer and shared images of the offences.
He was also found to be in possession of a quantity of prohibited images of children and extreme pornographic images.