Ian Kelly, a former Royal Mail Halifax Paedophile employee, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for making explicit sexual propositions to someone he believed to be a 13-year-old girl.
Ian Kelly was ensnared by an adult decoy affiliated with the web organisation Paedophile Hunters, as shown in Bradford Crown Court today.
The 60-year-old admitted guilt to attempting to induce a 13-year-old female to participate in penetrative sexual activity.
Prosecutor Carmel Pearson stated that Ian Kelly, residing on Byron Street in Halifax, commenced communication with the fabricated child in May 2021.
The fake claimed to be 13 years old and residing in Leeds.
Miss Pearson said Ian Kelly asked her to keep the chat a secret and it soon became sexualised. He wanted to meet up with her to ‘kiss and cuddle her and be her first with everything.’ By September 7, he said he wanted to kiss every inch of her. He asked her to remove her clothes and lie naked on the bed.
He said her photograph looked beautiful and that he loved her. Ian Kelly wanted to show her images of himself, but he didn’t actually send any.
On October, 16, 2021, members of the group attended at Ian Kelly’s home address and contacted the police. Officers seized his electronic devices and found the explicit sex chat.
The court heard that he had a conviction for indecent assault on a woman dating from 1988. A more recent offence of battery had lost him his job with the Royal Mail.
John Bottomley said in mitigation that it was an attempt and there was no real child.
Since his arrest, Ian Kelly had woken every day with ‘the Sword of Damocles hanging over him.’ He was lonely after losing his employment and that and his drinking had contributed to his offending.
Recorder Christopher Rose said that by September, 2021, Ian Kelly’s online chat had become extremely explicit.
“This was in your mind a genuine 13-year-old child that you were having conversations with,” he said.
The recorder accepted that Ian Kelly was lonely and isolated after losing his job because of the battery conviction.
He told his probation officer he had no intention of following the sexual suggestions through. But they would have been enormously harmful and damaging to a real child.
Ian Kelly was made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for five years and he must sign on the sex offender register, also for five years.
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