December 2014
Cobridge sex offender who assaulted schoolgirl sentenced for breach of prevention order
SEX offender Michael Horn has been sentenced to a three-year community order for breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) five times.
The 22-year-old, of Waterloo Road, Cobridge, was handed a 10-year SOPO in 2012 after he sexually assaulted a schoolgirl he groomed on the internet.
Horn pretended to be a 16-year-old to get to know his victim, who was 15 at the time, before arranging to meet the teenager in Sheffield.
But the defendant breached his order five times after he admitted accessing the internet, which he was prevented from doing.
Judge David Fletcher said: “You need to learn to control your urges because if you don’t, you will be spending longer and longer and longer in prison.”
