Oswestry man jailed for sex assault on child
Friday 9th September 2011, 12:46PM BST.
A Shropshire man who sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl has been jailed for six years. Russell Lee Kynaston, 35, of Smelt House Lane, Oswestry, appeared at Mold Crown Court yesterday after admitting the offence earlier.
Judge Niclas Parry said he posed a ‘significant risk of serious harm to young children’ after the court heard it was the second time in five years he had sexually assaulted a minor.
He was placed on the sex offender register for life and ordered not to associate with children unsupervised.
The judge said he had read of the defendant’s psychological difficulties, and he accepted the offence was not pre-meditated. But he said it was a troubling case.
He said the defendant was a man who found it easy to become very friendly with young children and he himself had been worried at his ability to control himself.
“I am entirely satisfied you pose a significant risk of serious harm to young children,” the judge said.
Mr John Hedgecoe, prosecuting, said after the sexual assault Kynaston offered the 11-year-old girl £20 if she did not report it.
But she did so immediately, the police were called and when interviewed he admitted what he had done but denied offering money.
Mr Ray McVeighty, defending, said of Kynaston: “He is a country man, a simpleton, who comes from a good rural family. He has worked the land, he can read and write but not well, he lives at home with his parents and has never had a girlfriend.”
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