August 2014 Lincolnshire man jailed for six years for child sex offence A Sleaford man convicted of sex offences against a young girl has been jailed for six years at Lincoln Crown Court. James Osler denied two charges of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and a further charge of sexual assault between June 1 and August 29 last year but the jury took less than 30 minutes to return guilty verdicts. Andrew Vout, prosecuting, said that Osler carried out the offences last summer when he sexually abused the young girl and warned her not to tell anyone what had happened. He said that the girl was four or five years old at the time of the offences. Osler, 25, of Butler Way, Sleaford, wept in the dock as the jury foreman announced the verdicts and went on to shout abuse at Judge John Pini QC as he was being sentenced. He later apologised to the judge after being brought back into court today for his sentence to be clarified. Judge Pini told Butler: “This offending occurred when the girl was a very young child. “She was four or five years of age. You have shown no remorse at all.” Robert Underwood, in mitigation, told the court: “What you have here is a young man who is now 25 with an offending history but for nothing of a like nature. “He has been to prison before. He knows how such people are treated in such an environment. He is going to find it a particularly hard burden.”