April 2011 Child sex abuser jailed for three years after touching two girls PERVERT Paul Bowen, who sexually abused two young girls and had pornographic pictures of children on his computer, has been jailed for three years. Bowen, from Stone, was branded a dangerous offender by Judge Paul Glenn. Stafford Crown Court heard Bowen indecently touched two 10-year-old girls, who cannot by law be identified. Anthony Johnson, prosecuting, said Bowen was arrested in Stone and an examination of his computer revealed that indecent images of children at all levels of seriousness had been accessed. The defendant denied that he had downloaded them. Bowen, aged 58, of West Close, Stone, admitted three charges of indecent assault and five of possessing indecent images of children. The court heard Bowen had a previous conviction for a sexual offence against a youngster. In 1994 he admitted indecently assaulting a 15-year-old girl, a boarding pupil at a school in the north of England, where he was a house parent. Judge Glenn told him the offences against the two Staffordshire girls had “a profound effect on the victims”. “Your conduct was planned, for your own sexual gratification,” said the judge. “There were elements of grooming.” The images found on the defendant’s computer showed “real children being abused for the entertainment of perverts”. Along with the jail sentence, Bowen was ordered to register as a sex offender indefinitely and banned from working with children. He was also made subject to a Sexual Offences Prevention Order that bans him from seeking the company of children. Andrew Baker, defending, said Bowen now recognised the terrible psychological effect his offences had had on the two girls.