July 2014

Paedophile who abused sleeping woman he thought was a child is first to wear 24-hour electronic tag

A DANGEROUS paedophile has become the first sex offender in the region to be forced to wear an electronic tag at all times.

Michael Lee will have his movements tracked by satellite by police when he is released from prison because of the “high risk he poses to all children.”

Lee, 30, was jailed for five years and nine months yesterday for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman at a house party after mistaking her for a child.

He was jailed for seven years in 2002 after luring young girls away from playgrounds and as they were walking home from school and sexually assaulting them.

Judge Jacqueline Davies made Lee the subject of a indefinite sexual offences prevention order (SOPO), including forcing him to wear the GPS tag.

Lee, of Cambridge Street, west Hull, sexually assaulted the 29-year-old woman as she slept during a house party in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

She had gone to bed in a little girl’s bedroom – which was painted bright pink – after feeling unwell.

When she woke to find him sexually assaulting her, he told her: “Don’t tell your mum.”

Hull Crown Court heard he had mistaken her for a child.

When police seized Lee’s mobile phone, they discovered 1,166 indecent images and films of children.

They included 310 still images and 19 films depicting the most serious forms of abuse on children as young as five.

Lee had also been contacting young girls through social networking sites.

In an interview with a probation officer, Lee said he enjoyed seeing children being sexually humiliated and believed that young children could consent to and enjoy sex.

He also said his attraction to children was “unavoidable”.

Lee was made the subject of a SOPO in 2002, banning him from having contact with children. After he was arrested, he told police he had been in a house with children about 20 times.

Lee admitted sexual assault, breaching a SOPO, making indecent images of children and possessing extreme images that showed adult women having sex with animals.

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