The Offender Database reported that Nathan Henderson, a Cleveland Police Paedophile Child Molester, who told a 14-year-old girl he wanted to “protect” her while he repeatedly sexually abused her, has been jailed for 10 and a half years.
Nathan Henderson, 30, who worked for Cleveland Police, was an “adept and deviant groomer” who also collected and catalogued hundreds of graphic videos of children as young as two being raped, Teesside Crown Court heard.
His victim said she was shocked when she found out he was a police officer, adding people in his position were “supposed to stop men like him from hurting children”.
Nathan Henderson, from Norton, Stockton, admitted 21 offences, including 11 counts of sexual activity with a child.
The girl revealed to officers she had been having regular sexual contact with Henderson at his home and in his car after they spoke to her about her uploading indecent images of herself on social media, prosecutor Paul Cleasby.
The girl said Nathan Henderson contacted her on the app Whisper, commenting on a post in which she said she was about to start Year 10 at school and was looking forward to her GCSEs, the court heard.
Their contact moved to Snapchat and became sexual, with the pair going on to meet up multiple times, the court heard.
Nathan Henderson would pick her up in his car from near her home, but never went to her house as he knew there were cameras there, the court heard.
The girl, who was extremely vulnerable as a result of being a victim of child sexual exploitation, which she told Henderson about, had been given a tracker key ring by her mother, the court heard.
As part of his efforts to keep his actions secret, Nathan Henderson would put the device in a Faraday pouch in his car to block the signal so her movements would not be traced, Mr Cleasby said.
He also bought her colouring pencils and chocolate, asked her to role-play as a seven-year-old and bought a second phone to communicate with her on, the court heard.
Today, Nathan Henderson was sentenced to 14 years of incarceration and issued a restraining order along with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).
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