Michael Fisher 37

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A convicted Doncaster paedophile hid his sordid past to befriend a family and sexually assault their young boy.

Michael Fisher, 37, was already on a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) banning contact with girls after a 2021 conviction.

He never disclosed this while visiting the family's home earlier this year, where he played with the children and insisted on taking them swimming.

The unsuspecting mother noticed the boy becoming withdrawn, refusing school, swearing, and misbehaving.

In June, the child revealed Fisher had "touched his bits," referring to his genitals, while touching himself. Prosecutor Jazmine Lee told Leeds Crown Court that Fisher would sit next to the boy and touch him.

Arrested on June 28, Fisher's devices revealed three Category A videos of "very young" children being abused, involving rape.

In his police interview, Fisher claimed he was gay and preferred younger men but denied attraction to children—despite his 2021 conviction for drunkenly assaulting a sleeping young girl, for which he was jailed 20 months and given the SHPO.

Appearing via video link from HMP Leeds, Fisher admitted sexual assault of a child under 13, making Category A images, and breaching his SHPO.

Mitigating, Peter Byrne said Fisher pleaded guilty early to spare the child a trial and had used prison time constructively on educational courses.

Judge Christopher Batty said Fisher had "wormed" his way into families in 2021 and this year, adding: "You have a sexual interest in children. You took an opportunity to assault this boy. There was no thought to the long-term consequences of what you were doing, you could not have cared less. Your sexual gratification was all that counted."

He jailed Fisher, now of Burnsall Grange, Armley, for three years and nine months, placed him on the sex offender register for life, and imposed a new lifelong SHPO.