Teen girl sex offender locked up

A 50-YEAR-OLD Fitton Hill man who sexually exploited a teenage girl has been jailed.

Jeffrey Dunn, of Keswick Avenue, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing before Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court to three offences of sexual activity with a child.

Dunn was jailed for two and a half years yesterday and was put on the Sex Offenders Register for life.

At the beginning of the year, a 15-year-old friend of the victim contacted the victim’s mother after the victim said she was engaged to Dunn.

The victim denied it and shortly after started arguing with her mother, going missing from her home and playing truant from school.

When the girl went missing in May, officers attended Dunn’s home and found her there but, as no offences were disclosed, Dunn was issued with an official abduction warning.

Days later, the girl was at his home again on two separate occasions and Dunn was arrested.

While on remand, Dunn sent the girl several love letters from prison, which her mother handed to police.

Det Sgt Liz Hopkinson from Messenger, an Oldham-based team of police and professionals specialising in child sexual exploitation, said: “Jeffrey Dunn took advantage of a young girl who genuinely believed they were in a relationship.

“They cannot be classed as older men who are in relationships with younger girls — they are paedophiles.”