\"What he did to me was horrible\"

Stocksbridge man walks away from court with suspended sentence after admitting sexual activity with a child

Stephen Turner, 33, of Stocksbridge has been sentenced to six months, suspended for 18 months, for two counts of sexual activity with a child, during a hearing held at Sheffield Crown Court.

Both offences were committed against the same 14-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

In a stomach churning victim personal statement read to the court, the girl described the impact Turner’s offending continues to have on her life.

“What Stephen did to me was horrible. I don’t think about it all the time, but it still comes into my head.

“I don’t like to think about it, it still upsets me,” said the girl.

Turner’s offending came to light when the girl told a school teacher about what had happened to her.

Turner, who has previously been convicted of an offence of battery committed against his wife, pleaded guilty to two offences of sexual activity with a child in earlier hearings.Turner was ordered to place himself on the sex offenders’ register from the date he entered his first guilty plea.

Judge Graham Reeds QC also made Turner the subject of a threeyear sexual harm prevention order, the purpose of which is to try and prevent Turner from committing more sexual crimes by imposing a set of conditions which limit his use of the internet and his contact with children under the age of 16.