Locations
Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, DE1
Description
A child sex offender from Burton-on-Trent has been jailed for nine years after the survivor bravery came forward.
Liam Stephen Wood, 19, of Burton, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing/inciting a female child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and three counts of making indecent photographs of a child at an earlier court hearing.
On Thursday (7 November) at Stafford Crown Court, he was jailed for nine years, with a five-year extended license period, put on the Sex Offenders Register for life, issued with a restraining order against the victim for the next decade and subject to a 15-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).
He was arrested in May 2024 after the survivor, a girl, bravely came forward and told someone about what Wood had done.
Officers from our child protection team (CPT) launched an investigation and managed to secure the charges against Wood, despite him denying his crimes on interview.