November 2014
Former Kent teaching assistant jailed for sexual offences against children
A former teaching assistant from Ashford is starting a three year jail sentence for sexual offences against children.
23-year-old Robert David Iles of Magpie Hall Road, Stubbs Cross, was working as a teaching assistant at Great Chart Primary School at the time of his arrest in April 2013.
He was charged with inciting two 12-year-old boys and one 15-year-old boy to engage in sexual activity via a web cam after grooming them on social media and pretending to be a teenage girl.
The judge said he then got sexual gratification by getting the youngsters to perform via the webcam.
In addition to his sentence he is also subject to a Sexual Offences Prevention Order for 10 years. Iles was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court on November 13.
