June 2022

Prolific Stokesley sex offender jailed for online child abuse

A Stokesley man has been jailed for six years and eight months for a catalogue of sexual offences against children and teenagers who he targeted through social media.

Mark Anthony Wilson, 35, previously of Allen Grove, pleaded guilty to 27 offences against nine victims aged between seven and 19.
Between 2018 and 2020 he targeted vulnerable children and young adults across the UK, asking for intimate, sexual photographs and video, threatening to expose them and their families if they did not give into his sickening requests.
In some cases, he carried out those threats to the unimaginable distress of his victims who were frightened, humiliated and degraded by him when he published their images online or to other people.
In one incident, Wilson sent the mother of one his victims, a video of her naked son.
In another, officers recovered images and video of a seven-year-old boy’s genitals sent during a series of 206 messages and Facetime calls between Wilson and the victim.
And in another, officers found explicitly sexual images of an eight-year-old girl and 1,149 messages between Wilson and the victim, many of them graphically sexual in nature.
He also sent racially offensive, abusive and sexual messages to a 16-year-old girl, threatening to post videos on YouTube claiming her father had raped her. He received an uplift of nine months to his sentence for the racially aggravated aspect of this offence.
Wilson was sentenced at Teesside Crown Court on 15 June 2022 after pleading guilty to all 27 offences at York Magistrates’ Court over the course of three hearings between August 2021 and February 2022. The judge commented on the long, complicated and complex investigation that brought Wilson to justice.
Wilson’s full list of offences include:
Distributing an indecent photograph of a child (Cat B)
Making an indecent photograph of a child (Cat A)
Making an indecent photograph of a child (Cat C)
Making an indecent photograph of a child (Cat B)
Causing or inciting a child under 13 (aged 9) to engage in sexual activity
Making indecent photographs of children (Cat C)
Sending an offensive message intending to cause distress or anxiety
Racially aggravated sending of an offensive message intending to cause distress or anxiety
Disclosing private sexual photograph or film
Sending an offensive message intending to cause distress or anxiety
Sending an offensive message intending to cause distress or anxiety
Making indecent photographs of children (Cat C)
Making indecent photographs of children (Cat A)
Making indecent photographs of children (Cat B)
Making indecent photographs of children (Cat C)
Sexual communication with a child
Causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity
Sexual communication with a child
Sexual communication with a child
Sexual communication with a child
Causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity
Sexual communication with a child
Making indecent images of children (Cat A)
Making indecent images of children (Cat B)
Making indecent images of children (Cat C)
Making indecent images of children (Cat B

Making indecent images of children (Cat C)