A paedophile who abused a young boy in Arlesey, Bedfordshire after playing football with him was jailed for a total of 14 years on Tuesday, December 13, 2022.
Steven Smith was aged 15 when he began indecently assaulting the boy, who was aged just eight at the time.
Prosecutor Jacinta Stringer said if the boy scored a goal Smith would say: “That is five minutes.”
He would taken him into bushes where he put his penis in his mouth.
He also penetrated the boy with his finger and got him to masturbate him.
The abuse continued after Smith had moved to Grantham in Lincolnshire.
In October Smith, aged 48, of First Avenue, Grantham was convicted of seven counts of indecently assaulting the boy in the 1990s.
He was also convicted of three other indecent assaults on female victims. In the mid 1990s he touched a woman indecently when she stayed on a sofa at his address.
Later, after a rave, he put his hand down the trousers of a teenager as they travelled in a car back from a rave.
When questioned by the police he denied all the allegations.
At St Albans crown court, Recorder Patrick Fields jailed him and said he must register as a sex offender for life. He is also banned from ever working with children or adults.
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