Locations
Broadlea Grove, Bramley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS13
Description
A woman who sexually abused a young boy and shared images of the incidents has been jailed following an investigation by specialist safeguarding officers in Leeds.
Emily Hedigan, aged 21, of Broadlea Grove, Bramley, pleaded guilty to eight offences when she appeared at Leeds Crown Court on February 29.
She was convicted of offences of causing or inciting a boy under 13 to engage in sexual activity, sexual touching of a boy aged under 13, taking, making and distributing indecent images of a child, and possession of cocaine.
Police were alerted on January 29 this year after a person obtained Hedigan’s mobile phone and found images of the boy on it.
She was arrested and her phone was examined by expert digital forensic investigators who recovered video and still images of her sexually abusing the child on a number of occasions.
Further work by digital media investigators established that Hedigan had been sending the images to a man elsewhere in the country in exchange for money.
She admitted the offences when interviewed but claimed she had been providing the images under duress.
She was sentenced to a total of four years and eight months imprisonment at Leeds Crown Court yesterday.
She will remain on the Sex Offenders Register for life and was also given a lifetime Sexual Harm Prevention Order.