January 2015
Sex offender who ‘flashed’ at 13-year-old girl via ‘FaceTime’ sent to youth custody
A sex offender who ‘flashed’ at a 13-year-old girl via a ‘Face Time’ connection has been sent to youth custody for 15 months after he spurned a chance to be rehabilitated.
Aaron Kuckukcan already had a conviction for indecently exposing himself to woman in a park in Colne when he was a teenager, Burnley Crown Court was told
But the 20-year-old, who was being monitored by Lancashire Constabulary’s dangerous and sexual offenders team, moved house without telling detectives.
Kuckukcan later confessed to police that he hadn’t told them about the switch because he had moved to a home near a primary school, said prosecutor Judith McCullough.
He also failed to turn up for a number of appointments with his probation officer and was a heavy cannabis user, the court heard.
Passing sentence, Judge Beverley Lunt said: “You must be watched and tell police where you are living. Otherwise you will return to court and I will keep locking you up for longer and longer to protect the public.”
Kuckukcan, formerly of Blacko Road, Gisburn, and Derby Street, Colne, but now of no fixed address, admitted breach of a sexual offences prevention order and breach of a community order, including three years probation supervision and attendance of a sex offenders treatment programme.
Ms McCullough said the defendant had been visited by the dangerous and sexual offenders team while he was living in a bedsit in Wren Street, Burnley. But when officers returned later in the month he had left without warning.
The court heard he had been living at another house in Westmorland Street, but had not informed detectives as it was located close to a primary school.
Richard Taylor, defending, said his client was due to begin a sex offenders treatment course on January 15, which had been the purpose of his original sentence last February.
“He is still only a very young man with a lot of growing up to do,” said Mr Taylor.
The court heard there were difficulties with the defendant’s accommodation as he could could not return to Westmoreland and his mother’s address was unavailable.
