June 2008 Protests as paedophile has prison term reduced Children’s rights campaigners have attacked a judge’s decision to cut a sex predator’s jail sentence. John Park, 47, sexually assaulted a two-year-old girl and took pictures of himself doing so with a digital camera Park was jailed for seven years at Portsmouth Crown Court on February 25 after admitting assaulting a child and taking 22 indecent photographs of a child. He also admitted perverting the course of justice by throwing away his computer. But Park’s sentence has now been cut to six years at London’s Criminal Appeal Court. Mr Justice King described it as a ‘sickening example of child abuse’, but added: ‘It is unlikely that the victim was put in fear and he certainly didn’t cause any injury to her. ‘The discount should have been greater than that the judge actually gave.’ The judge’s comments have outraged campaigners.