In 2022, the Offender register reported that Stuart Baker lured his way into a position of trust by befriending his victim’s family while grooming him between 2017 and 2022, police said.
He went so far as to move house to be closer to the teenager, Warwickshire Police added.
The 36-year-old was sentenced at Warwick Crown Court on 16 November to two years’ imprisonment.
Baker, of Gauden Road, in Stourbridge, pleaded guilty to four charges of sexual assault.
The predator met the boy’s father in 2015 and struck up a friendship with the family.
His crimes came to light in 2020, when he drunkenly admitted to a colleague he had been sending sexually explicit messages to an underage boy.
The colleague contacted the NSPCC, who alerted police, and Baker was arrested, the force said.
Baker has also been placed on the sex offenders register and handed a 10-year sexual harm prevention order.
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