May 2008 Family disgusted sex attacker is spared jail THE family of a sexual assault victim has criticised the British justice system after a sexual predator escaped a jail sentence. Paul Carson, of Kings Crescent, pleaded guilty at Warrington Crown Court on Friday, May 16, to two counts of sexual assault against a female. The 37-year-old was put under a three-year supervision order, instructed to attend a programme to change his behaviour, forced to sign the sex offenders register for five years and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £550. But a relative of the 16-year-old victim said the sentence was not enough. “If he hadn’t changed his plea to guilty he would have gone to prison,” she said. “It’s just not good enough. “Why should he get away with it when he’s put these young girls through hell?” The family member said the victim, who is now 17, was left so traumatised by the incident she was unable to work for three months. “She had to pack her job in,” she said. “She couldn’t go back to work because she was too frightened and embarrassed. “She’s alright about it now, she feels that she can move on, but she doesn’t want to have to walk the streets and see him.” The judge ruled that Carson was not disqualified from working with children because his job as a welder did not bring him into contact with children. The family member added: “What he’s done isn’t right and everyone deserves to know he lives in this town. “People have a right to know there’s a sex offender living in their street.”