In 2019, the Offender Database reported that David Carr, then 34, of Intake Road, Pudsey, was returned to prison by Leeds Crown Court for a sexual offence committed a decade earlier. Carr, a serial predator, was brought to justice after a significant failure by West Yorkshire Police to investigate the original 2011 report made by his victim.
The court heard that in 2009, when Carr was 24, he met a 14-year-old girl in an online chatroom for teenagers and had sex with her at his then-home in Middleton, Leeds. The victim reported the abuse in 2011, but the police failed to launch an investigation at that time. She contacted authorities again after seeing media coverage of Carr being jailed in 2013 for separate child sex offences. In that 2013 case, Carr had groomed a 15-year-old girl online and had sex with her twice; police also discovered 158 indecent images of children on his computers during that arrest.
During the 2019 proceedings, a victim impact statement was read to the court, detailing how the survivor had spent years in fear that Carr had transmitted a sexually transmitted infection to her. Although Carr initially denied a charge of rape related to the 2009 incident, he pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child shortly before his trial was set to begin. Judge Tom Bayliss QC, in his sentencing remarks, noted that Carr “knew perfectly well” the victim was only 14 years old at the time of the abuse.
David Carr was returned to prison for his latest conviction, which added to his previous four-and-a-half-year sentence from 2013. His prior record included two counts of sexual activity with a child, causing a child to watch a sexual act, and 11 offences relating to the possession of indecent images of children.
As a result of his history of serial child sex offending, David Carr is a registered sex offender for life. He is managed under the highest level of Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) in the Leeds and Pudsey areas. This ensures that West Yorkshire Police and the National Probation Service maintain permanent, intensive monitoring of his residency and internet usage to protect the public from further predatory behaviour.
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