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Jonathan Wright

69yo man sentenced to 13-and-a-half years for child SA and possessing 17,000 child abuse images

A 69-year-old man in England has been jailed for 13 years and six months after being convicted of sexual abuse of a minor.

Andrew Sharp, of Station Road in Lydd, Romney Marsh, was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court on Friday, June 19, according to Kent Police. Detectives in Kent recovered more than 17,000 child abuse images from his digital devices and established that he had sexually abused a young girl over four years. The court also imposed a 20-year restraining order to protect his victim, along with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order of the same length.

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