Yahoo News Predatory sex offender who posed as council worker to target women in their 80s jailed
A predatory sex offender who posed as a council worker to target women in their 80s has been jailed.
Abraham Price, 28, was arrested on August 24 2018 after three incidents in a fortnight against elderly women.
On each instance, Price visited the women claiming to be from the council and offering to carry out tree cutting services.
He then exposed himself to the women and in one case tricked his way into the victim’s house before committing a sexual act against her.
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Price, of Brigg, in Yorkshire, admitted three counts of exposure, one of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent, one of attempting to cause another to engage in sexual activity without consent and one of trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence.
He was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison.
He will also be subject to a lifetime sexual harm prevention order.
Detective Chief Inspector Lee Berry said: “Within 12 hours of the second offence, Price, who was a sex offender from Humberside, was identified and arrested.
“Through combined and coordinated efforts he was detained leaving a travellers’ site in Humberside.
“The subsequent investigation revealed an additional 28 offences which matched these unusual offences from across South Yorkshire. Three women in their 70s and 80s identified Price from offences from up to three years earlier.”
