October 2012 Sex offender who abused young child jailed A sex offender who sexually abused a young child has been jailed for three years. Terry Barton, 46, was found guilty of three sexual assaults, committed between November 2008 and March last year, after a trial at Northampton Crown Court last month. Barton, of Ecton Brook, Northampton was jailed for three years at Leicester Crown Court by Judge Lynn Tayton QC who also imposed an indefinite sexual offences’ prevention order. Barton will now be on the sex offenders’ register for life.