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A man who sexually abused his niece for a decade, starting when she was 7, will not go to jail.
The victim, now a mother, suffers from PTSD and lives in fear of her own children being abused, said, “I question my ability to live a long and healthy life.”
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Aaron McCormick has avoided jail after punching his ex-partner. The prosecutor said it was "one of the worst domestic assaults I've probably ever seen".
He was jailed in 2015 for assaulting a woman, and charged with battery in '06, '07, '09, '10 and 2016.

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A man who assaulted his partner and fractured her ankle has avoided jail, despite a judge warning he is a risk to his victim and others.
Daniel Ford initially claimed to police his actions were in self-defence, despite his victim being taken to hospital.

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Anthony McHugh avoided a jail despite subjecting his girlfriend to months of abuse and smashing her mobile phone into her head, leaving blood pouring from the wound.
He even became angry when a relative messaged to tell her a family member had died.
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Ryan Richardson avoided jail after beating up his ex-partner leaving her 'battered and bruised' after his barrister claimed he 'mishandled' the relationship.

He forced her to walk 20 minutes to the hospital while she bled.
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A ‘high risk’ sex offender who waved his genitals in front of a group of nurses has been spared prison.

When arrested, he told officers he committed the sex crimes because he was lonely.

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A former taxi driver who kept hidden recording equipment in a teenage girl's bedroom avoided jail.

David Brown installed the equipment and adapted structures in the bedroom of the girl when she was aged between 13 and 16.

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A man who raped his intoxicated niece will not go to jail.

The victim told the judge that she "cries about this at night. I am a shell and I am a very broken woman. I don't feel I will be the same person I once was. I have truly lost myself".

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A man who struck his pregnant partner over the back with a chair has been given a suspended jail sentence after spending nine months in custody since the attack.
Craig Jason Smith said he wanted to kill his partner and the baby.
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A man who downloaded more than 2,300 indecent images and videos of children has avoided prison.
Nigel Davies had thousands of images and videos of children, aged between six months and 15, being sexually abused and involved in ‘sadistic’ activities.
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Two policemen who regularly misused their positions to "pick up women" while on duty have avoided jail after raping a 17-year-old schoolgirl.
During the encounter the officers took videos. The judge said the girl was "perfectly capable of consenting."
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A man who repeatedly assaulted and threatened to kill his pregnant partner avoided jail.
She was four months' pregnant when Laveckij began beating her.
He held a knife to her neck and on another occasion he punched her, causing her to fall down the stairs.
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A teacher who sent explicit images of himself to an officer posing as a 12 year-old girl avoided a jail sentence. David Goodwin asked the girl decoy to 'strip naked'.

The judge said, "You have behaved in a way that is completely out of character for you."
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A teacher who downloaded depraved sex abuse videos of children as young as four from the dark web has avoided an immediate jail term.

Judge Timothy Stead told Matthew Walker: "You should have known better."

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A convicted sex offender shouted "I beat the law" as he left court just moments after he was spared jail for raping a 15-year-old girl.
Ethan Hewitt started a sexual relationship with a schoolgirl after grooming her on Facebook.
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A teacher who was found guilty of possessing over 4,000 sexual abuse images of children was spared a prison sentence.
Andrew Moore posed as a 14-year-old girl online, using Tumblr and Kik. He admitted he had been collecting CSA images since he was 13.
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A father-of-three who was caught with child rape images on his phone was spared jail after blaming his descent into paedophilia on the death of his wife.

Gareth Sumner, who has two daughters, downloaded content of young girls being raped.
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Malcolm Young, who held a position as a pro-vice-chancellor at Newcastle University, was spared jail after he tried to buy a child-like sex abuse doll from China.
Police found he had also downloaded child sex abuse images.
metro.co.uk/2021/09/25/aca…

The family of a paedophile former bus driver broke down in tears when he was spared jail.
Steven Knight had hundreds of thousands of CSA images, including babies as young as one year-old, and also took photos of children in their underwear while working.

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Almost 1,700 sex offenders spared jail when first convicted went on to carry out similar crimes.
“With sex attacks, non-custodial sentences should be the exception and not, as seems to be the case, increasingly the norm.”
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