January 2019 Man who plied schoolgirls with drugs then sexually abused them jailed for nine years A 21-year-old man has been jailed for nine years after being convicted of multiple child sex offences. Austin Stuart-Taylor, of Taunton , supplied his victims with drugs before sexually exploiting them at addresses in Minehead, Taunton and Wellington. In total, he abused four girls aged between 13 and 17 from 2015 to 2017. He was convicted of 15 offences – admitting two counts of offering to supply Class A drugs and one count of offering to supply a Class B drug on first day of his trial at Bristol Crown Court following which, he was found guilty of a further 12 offences. In addition to being jailed at a sentencing hearing today, he was also given a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order, a 10-year restraining order against all the victims and he’ll be on the Sex Offenders’ Register indefinitely. The offences he was found guilty of were: Three counts of sexual activity with a child One count of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity Three counts of possessing indecent images of children One count of offering to supply a Class A drug Three counts of offering to supply a Class B drug One count of permitting a premises to be used for smoking cannabis During the trial, the jury were told neighbours would often see girls dressed in school uniform attend the properties occupied by Stuart-Taylor. There, he would provide them with drugs including cannabis, ketamine and MDMA. The jury were told sexual images and moving video footage of children as young as three-years-old were found on Stuart-Taylor’s computer. An examination of his phone also found a substantial number of photos of his genitalia, some of which the court heard, were sent to his victims in an effort to groom them. He also repeatedly asked his victims to take indecent pictures of themselves and send them to him.