The Liverpool Echo sends newsletters on a wide range of topics - including our daily news bulletin, now going out three times a day. “I was too young to realise I was being groomed, too young to know you were taking advantage of me. “You were someone I liked, I trusted and wanted to spend time with and play the game. He said: “I never wanted to believe that you were that word - a ‘paedophile’, because that meant I was abused and you were my abuser. His victim, now an adult, read a powerful impact statement in which he asserted his identity as a “survivor of child sexual abuse”. Baby boy mauled by pitbull while playing on swing with his mum.Matters came to light when Cook’s victim began to confide in people close to him, resulting in counselling sessions, and then the involvement of Merseyside Police.Ĭook denied the charges and was convicted at trial. The offences took place in Liverpool in the late 1980s when Cook was an adult teenager. Ms Mottram recounted details of the vile abuse, which was perpetuated against a young boy under the age of 12 and included sex acts and “simulated sexual intercourse”. READ MORE: Children's care home worker had sickening images of kids The charges reflected an escalation of worsening crimes from touching to activity characterised as rape by prosecuting barrister Cheryl Mottram on Thursday at Liverpool Crown Court as Cook was sentenced. ![]() Philip Cook, of Davenport Row, Halton Lodge, was found guilty by jurors on August 26 of nine counts of indecent assault of a child. ![]() A 51-year-old man from Runcorn has been jailed after being convicted for a string of historical child sex abuse offences from the late 1980s.
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