Man pleads guilty to arranging child sex offence

Man pleads guilty to arranging child sex offence

A man who travelled from Norwich to Surrey to abuse a six-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to child sex offences.

Peter Rider, 40 and formerly of Ivory Road in Norwich, exchanged various messages with a man, with whom he described how he would like to carry out sexual acts on the man’s step daughter.
He discussed plying the child with alcohol during email and telephone conversations during September 2016. 

On 23 September, Rider drove to meet the man in Caterham, where he encouraged him to collect the child, revealing he had sweets in his car and suggesting they used alcohol to get her ‘tipsy’.
Rider was unaware he had in fact been communicating with an undercover officer and at around 11.30am 23rd September he was approached and arrested by detectives from the Kent Police Paedophile Online Investigation Team.
A search of his car revealed items, including bags of sweets and a USB memory stick. A forensic examination of the memory stick revealed it contained 409 indecent images of children. Of these, 38 images were classed as Category A, the most serious level.
During police interview Rider claims no intention to carry out any offences against the child, claiming ‘it was only fantasy’.

On 4 January, 2017 Rider appeared before Maidstone Crown Court. He pleaded guilty to arranging the commission of a child sexual offence.

He had previously also pleaded guilty to four counts of possessing indecent images of children.  Rider will be sentenced at the same court on 28 February, 2017.

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