December 2016 Sex offender jailed for 5 years A 20-year-old man has been jailed for 5 years after admitting 12 charges relating to sexual activity with children, the sexual grooming of an underage girl and possession of indecent images.   Kameron May, of California, Wickham Market, appeared at Ipswich Crown Court on Friday 17 June where he admitted a total of 12 offences against eight girls aged between 12 and 15, including Six counts of sexual activity with a child Four counts of causing/ inciting a child into sexual activity One count of sexual grooming One count of possession of indecent images of children, – relating to his possession of more than 1,000 images. May has been sentenced to 5 years in prison, and given an extended licence of 36 months. He will be placed on the sex offenders’ register for life. In April 2015, at a sentencing for previous similar offences, Kameron May was given sexual harm prevention order that meant he could not access the internet without retaining a history of the sites he had visited and was ordered to make this available to police on request. In July 2015 police received an initial allegation via the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub and a joint enquiry got underway. May was arrested on suspicion of sexual activity with a female under 16, was interviewed and bailed to August 10 to allow for further investigation as the girl did not initially want to talk to police about what happened. In the meantime the guardian of another 13-year-old girl came forward after becoming suspicious of his motives and confronted him telling him to leave the teenager alone. May was arrested again at the end of July 2015 on suspicion of grooming and breaching his sexual harm prevention order. He was charged with breaching the order and appeared at court. When he had been arrested he had handed police his phone. However officers suspected that he was hiding another device and, after searches at his home, located another phone he had hidden. This was packed with contacts – 275 of them – with 140 of them with female names, 26 of them family or male friends and 109 relating to unsaved numbers that had been recently called. At this stage police did not know who the contacts were, or how old they were.  Indecent images were also found on the phone and he was subsequently charged with possession of these. A victim’s family speaking about the impact of May’s offending said, “For the past year there has been a constant cloud hanging over us. I go to bed and I replay the events of the past 12 months and I wake up with the same thoughts. I rarely sleep through the night, my mind is totally consumed by this abhorrent crime, my mind is running back through things – could I have prevented any of this? From the moment a year ago when this incident took place life has been a rollercoaster of emotions. My daughter was a very young and extremely vulnerable child when she met Kameron, who certainly exploited her vulnerability and made her very dependent on him to the extent that her demeanour totally changed when she was in contact with him…. I felt that all the nurturing and care that she had received from me as she grew up was being replaced by his control of her. She was a completely different girl…This has had a profound effect on both our lives and the road to recovery is going to take a long time.”