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A paedophile drug dealer has been banned for life from any unsupervised contact with children unless their parents know he is a sex offender and grant permission.
Terry Park, 31, from Basildon, was jailed for 12 years in December after a jury at Southend Crown Court convicted him of five child sexual offences: one count of rape and four of assault by penetration.
The cannabis dealer had plied a teenage girl with his stash and repeatedly assaulted her.
The court heard he received a caution in 2013, at age 18, for possessing indecent images of children of both genders, found on his Blackberry by his then-girlfriend, who reported him to Essex Police.
Judge Samantha Cohen said it was clear Park—who claimed at trial he was being framed—"harboured a sexual attraction to children for many years."
Police searching his phone for the recent offences found images of the victim in bed, which he said were planted, plus over 100 images of children and babies, which he insisted were innocent photos of friends' children.
Judge Cohen postponed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) for further investigation.
Park appeared via video link at Basildon Crown Court on Monday for the resumed hearing, where prosecutor Dharmendra Toor said: “The phone review showed many images of female and male children.”
After reading a witness statement from the case officer—not read aloud—Judge Cohen said:
“That does, I have to say, make a good case for the proposed order restricting contact with any child under 18.”
She imposed a lifelong SHPO banning Park from supervised or unsupervised contact with any child under 18 unless their parent or guardian knows of his convictions and SHPO and consents, and a local sex offender monitoring officer also consents.
Other terms include a lifelong ban on owning any internet-capable device unless he makes it available for police inspection on request and allows monitoring software installation.
He is also banned from communicating with any other convicted sex offender unless approved by police.
“They all seem to me to be necessary to monitor Mr Park’s activities and are proportionate to the risk that he presents,” said Judge Cohen.