{"id":347426,"date":"2025-08-15T20:41:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/347426\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T20:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:41:19","slug":"birmingham-man-jailed-for-historical-sex-abuse-where-he-threatened-to-kill-victims-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/347426\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham man jailed for historical sex abuse where he threatened to kill victim’s family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vile Carl Chapman abused the girl from when she was nine-years-old to 16\"CarlCarl Chapman(Image: WMP)<\/p>\n

A Birmingham man has been locked up for sexually abusing a girl for seven years.<\/p>\n

Vile Carl Chapman, aged 61, indecently assaulted his victim, who was known to him, from when she was nine-years-old to 16.<\/p>\n

Chapman would bribe her and even threatened to kill her family.<\/p>\n

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The girl, now a woman, bravely came forward to report the non-recent offences and following an investigation by officers he was arrested and hauled before the courts for his crimes.<\/p>\n

Chapman, of Birmingham<\/a>, appeared at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 8 August following a trial in April this year where he was found guilty of 19 counts including indecent assault on a girl under 16, inciting a girl under 16 to commit an act of gross indecency, inciting a girl under 14 to commit an act of gross indecency and inciting a girl aged 13-15 to engage in sexual activity.<\/p>\n

He was jailed for 17 years and will also be on the sex-offenders register for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n

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Detective Sergeant Chloe Collins, who investigated the case, said: \u201cI want to commend the courage and bravery of the victim in coming forward and reporting Chapman\u2019s deplorable crimes to us.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe showed so much bravery not only in reporting but showed her strength throughout the investigation, trial, and the sentencing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would not have been able to put Chapman behind bars without her courage and I thank her for that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope the jail term handed out gives her some closure and serves as a reminder to other victims of crime to come forward and make a report \u2013 it\u2019s never too late.\u201d<\/p>\n

WMP added: “We have dedicated teams across the force whose job it is to investigate rape and serious sexual assaults.<\/p>\n

“If you are a victim, whether the incident happened hours ago, or twenty years or more, come forward and report it to us \u2013 no matter how much time has passed, please report it.<\/p>\n

“Our officers will always thoroughly investigate and offer support to anyone who is a victim of sexual abuse.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vile Carl Chapman abused the girl from when she was nine-years-old to 16Carl Chapman(Image: WMP) A Birmingham man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-347426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115034723673062460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347426","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=347426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}