At Oxford Crown Court on Friday, June 19, Robert Williams of Samuelson Court, Banbury, received an enhanced sentence of 19 years in prison and an additional five years on licence for crimes against two young children during a four-year period.
He was previously convicted at trial of two counts of cruelty to a child under the age of sixteen, three counts of forcing or persuading a child to participate in sexual behaviour, and three counts of rape of a child under the age of thirteen.
The crimes were perpetrated against a child and a boy who were between the ages of two and nine between June 2013 and June 2017.
Robert Williams received a 19-year prison sentence and a five-year licence (Image: Thames Valley Police).
According to what the court heard, Williams sexually assaulted the girl and coerced the children into having intercourse with one another by threatening to beat them “savagely” with a belt and threaten them with a knife.
Judge Ian Pringle KC stated, “Your treatment of the children over that period was nothing short of despicable,” during his sentence remarks.
Williams was given a total sentence of 19 years in prison: 15 years for the three counts of raping a child under the age of 13, four years each for the three counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, to be served concurrently but consecutively to the first sentence, and one year each for the two counts of child cruelty, to be served concurrently.
Williams was given a five-year licence extension and a lifetime Sexual Harm Prevention Order because he was deemed a “dangerous offender.”
Amy Williams was found guilty on two charges of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual behaviour, one by a majority verdict and the other by a unanimous decision.
She will be sentenced on June 24.
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