May 2020 Macclesfield sex offender jailed for arranging to meet a teenage girl A Macclesfield sex offender has been jailed after arranging to meet a girl under 16 and failing to adhere to his Sexual Harm Prevention Order. James Rowe, 34, from Torr Road, Macclesfield appeared at Chester Crown Court on Thursday 21 May and was sentenced to seven years in prison. He pleaded guilty to two counts of breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity at an earlier hearing. The breaches relate to continuing to be in contact with children, not declaring an online address and possession of a mobile phone. The breaches came to light following a spot check from the designated sexual offender liaison officer acting on information. An investigation followed and revealed Rowe was in possession of mobile phones, which he denied when asked, and was inappropriately messaging girls under the age of 16 under aliases. February 2016 Man jailed for grooming girl for sex via Social Media A pervert who used social media to groom a schoolgirl for sex has been jailed. James Philip Rowe, 30, met the underage girl through a friend and ‘almost immediately’ began grooming her online, the court heard. Over a two week period, he sent sexually explicit images of himself and urged her to do the same, prosecutor Mark Connor said. He ‘persistently’ demanded she meet him for sex, sent ‘extremely explicit messages’ and even claimed ‘he wanted her to have his baby’, the court heard The victim eventually told her mum and police. Rowe, of Belgrave Road, Macclesfield, initially told police his account had been hacked, but later admitted four child sex offences including: Two charges of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity Meeting a child following sexual grooming Arranging or facilitating to commit a sex offence against a child. But Warrington Crown Court also heard that Rowe was already a convicted sex offender who in 2013 had admitted encouraging sexual activity with a child after he was caught writing letters to an underage girl while in prison for theft offences. Jailing Rowe for three years, Judge Nicholas Woodward said: “Despite knowing she was under 16, and at one point believing she may be 14, you instigated contacted on social media. “That almost immediately became blatantly sexual. “You tried to meet her but she was reluctant. You persisted and pursued her, sending pictures of yourself and asking her to send sexually explicit images of herself to you. You then made it clear you wanted sex.” Rowe was also given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, restricting his contact with children for 10 years. June 2013 Ex prisoners relationship with underage girl A man who wrote some letters to a underage girl whilst he was in prison has been put on the sex offenders register James Phillip Rowe, 27 had struck up a relationship with the girl shortly before he was sent to prison for theft offence. Rowe of Macclesfield pleaded guilty to encouraging non-penetrative sexual activity with a girl who was under 16 years old The prosecutor said ” Her mother had given evidence, that from September 2012, her daughter had been writing to someone called “J” who was in prison at the time The man concerned was James Rowe, who was 26 at the time. Rowe was jailed again for a separate theft offence in January this year