The Offender Database reported that Stephen Hollingsworth, the Ilkley Paedophile and Sex Offender, has been seen hanging around Ilkley Moor.
He is subject to a SHPO and is on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
Stephen Hollingsworth, of Oaklands, Westwood Drive, Ilkley, Leeds, LS29 9RE, was convicted of a multitude of offences IN 2021, including:
- Penetrative sexual activity with a girl under 16 – 4 years imprisonment
- Cause / incite a girl under 16 to engage in sexual activity – no penetration – 2 years imprisonment – concurrent
- Cause / incite a girl under 16 to engage in sexual activity – no penetration – 2 years imprisonment – concurrent
- Penetrative sexual activity with a girl under 16 – 4 years imprisonment concurrent
- Penetrative sexual activity with a girl under 16 – 4 years imprisonment – concurrent
- Penetrative sexual activity with a girl under 16 – to remain on file
- Penetrative sexual activity with a girl under 16 -4 years imprisonment to run concurrent
- Penetrative sexual activity with a girl under 16 – 4 years imprisonment to run concurrent
- Penetrative sexual activity with a girl under 16 – 4 years imprisonment to run concurrent
- Penetrative sexual activity with a girl under 16 – 4 years imprisonment to run concurrent
- Penetrative sexual activity with a girl under 16 – to remain on file
- Take an indecent photograph / pseudo-photograph of a child – 16 months imprisonment to run concurrent
His M.O. is to groom a young girl online over a period of time and then start meeting them. Then he will gradually push sexual boundaries up to and including penetrating the child.
He is known to use both his home and nearby Hotels to rape the young girls.
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