Harlescott Paedophile Michael Cook is a “dangerous” child molester who poses a very high risk to children.
Michael Cook, 24, was imprisoned at Shrewsbury Crown Court on Friday following a guilty plea to 12 sexual offences, which over five years had taken place — some while he was already on police release.
Saying, “In my judgement, there is a risk you will commit further offences against children,” Judge Laura Hobson said Michael Cook fit the profile of a “dangerous offender.”
Michael Cook, from Harlescott, Shrewsbury, had accepted offences of physical abuse of a young child, possession of indecent photographs of minors, and attempted child sex offence arrangement.
Michael Cook first came under police notice in 2018.
Simon Parry, prosecuting, claimed that a mother residing in northern England had grown worried about who her 12-year-old daughter was talking to on her phone.
She sought help from her brother, who checked the phone and discovered the girl had a Snapchat contact under the name “boyfriend,” with a “hey beautiful” signed-off “x.”
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