Kevan Rose, a ‘predatory’ Hanley paedophile transmitted a sexually explicit image of himself to an undercover officer impersonating a schoolgirl. Kevan Rose was apprehended after transmitting an image of his genitals to an individual he presumed to be a 12-year-old child.
Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court was informed that the 34-year-old, Kevan Rose, resident of Percy Street, Hanley, engaged in conversations with the ‘girl’ in an online chatroom on the Kik platform under the handles Daddy K and Open-MindedDaddy88. He also participated in sexual conversation with the decoy.
Prosecutor Anthony Longworth stated: “The undercover agent created a fictitious profile for a 12-year-old child.” On August 10, 2021, the defendant, utilising the aliases DaddyK, Chris, and the Kik ID OpenMindedDaddy88, initiated communication, claiming to be a 33-year-old male from Stafford and identifying himself as Chris in a conversation group on the instant message application.
“On August 12, 2021 the defendant was told he was chatting with a 12-year-old female child. After being made aware of the apparent age, the defendant sent a picture of his erect penis and confirmed the photo was himself.
“Kevan Rose began some sexual chat and stopped when he suspected that the other profile was not real. It was established that the account was registered to this defendant in his flat on Percy Street, in Hanley, and the phone number was found to belong to the defendant.
“Kevan Rose was arrested on October 5, 2021 and re-arrested in respect of other matters on that date. His phone was seized from him and this phone was examined and found to be on it was an image of an erect penis that was the same as that sent to the undercover operator.”
Kevan Rose is currently serving a two-and-a-half year sentence for breaching a sexual risk order; failing to comply with the notification requirements of the sex offenders’ register; and doing an act intending to pervert the course of public justice.
He pleaded guilty to failing to comply with notification requirements and attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child. Deputy Circuit Judge David Fletcher adjourned the case for sentencing on December 2.
DC Nathalie Connolly, of Staffordshire Police’s Sex Offender Management Unit, previously described Rose as a ‘deceitful and predatory paedophile who knows no boundaries’. She added: “His grossly offensive and abhorrent fantasies involving sexual acts with children have impacted and traumatised many innocent people.”
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