{"id":291993,"date":"2025-07-26T01:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/291993\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T01:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:04:19","slug":"rotherham-man-found-guilty-of-repeatedly-raping-schoolgirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/291993\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotherham man found guilty of repeatedly raping schoolgirl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He first assaulted her in 2005, after taking her to a cinema and then to a hotel in Bassetlaw where he gave her wine and kissed her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victim told investigators how she repeatedly said she did not want him to kiss her, but he ignored her pleas and raped her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He attempted to and then raped her at a hotel in Rotherham, and twice more at a house in Nottinghamshire in the months after the first attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin McRobb, a prosecutor from the Crown Prosecution Service&#8217;s organised child sexual abuse unit, described Richardson&#8217;s approach as &#8220;calculating&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[He was] exploiting her youth and vulnerability to place her in situations where he could use force to sexually abuse her,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Investigators from Operation Stovewood, the NCA&#8217;s enquiry into historic sexual abuse in Rotherham, contacted the victim in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She gave them a phone which Richardson had given her as a child, which contained sexual texts from him. He was arrested and charged in March last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was cleared of 10 charges, including two further counts of rape, two of attempted rape, sexual assault and trafficking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richarson was remanded in custody on Thursday ahead of his sentencing hearing on 21 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He first assaulted her in 2005, after taking her to a cinema and then to a hotel in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-291993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114916849602224730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}