In 2018, the Offender Database reported that Peter Cleaver, the Exeter Paedophile Child Rapist, was reincarcerated after being apprehended for grooming young adolescent males whom he befriended while they were swimming in the Exeter Canal.
Peter Cleaver permitted the three boys to operate his vehicle on a roadway leading to the Double Locks bar and bestowed upon them sweets and gifts.
He escorted them to a pub, purchased McDonald’s dinners for them, and began making sexual overtures towards a young teenager.
He was halted from proceeding when the parents discovered his actions, confronted him at the canal, and summoned the police.
It was at that moment they discovered that Peter Cleaver had been incarcerated for 12 years in 2000 for 17 counts of raping and molesting five boys during the 1980s and 1990s.
Two of his previous victims were strangers who were assaulted following the same grooming method he employed with the three lads.
Peter Cleaver, then 58, from Littleway, Exeter, confessed to one charge of engaging in sexual activity with a minor and three charges of meeting a juvenile after grooming.
He was sentenced to two years and four months in prison by Judge David Evans at Exeter Crown Court, mandated to register as a sex offender for life, and prohibited from any future contact with boys by a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Miss Kelly Scrivener, representing the prosecution, stated that Peter Cleaver initially encountered the three children while walking his dog near the Double Locks pub, where they were swimming in the Exeter Canal.
He formed a friendship with them and observed their transformation, pursuing one of them when they were unclothed after he dropped his towel.
His sexual touch involved patting the boys’ buttocks over their garments and embracing them.
He requested to view the penis of one of the boys.
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