Multiple counts
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Surrey Pride founder faces child sex abuse charges
The founder and former director of Pride in Surrey has been charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse against children.
Stephen Ireland, 40, and David Sutton, 26, both from Addlestone, were arrested on Wednesday. Mr Ireland founded Pride in Surrey in 2018. Mr Sutton was a volunteer with the organisation. The pair were suspended in June this year.
When the Beeb said multiple counts it wasn’t kidding.
Mr Ireland and Mr Sutton face a series of charges including six counts of conspiracy to sexually assault a child, conspiracy to kidnap a child, voyeurism and arranging the commission of a child sex offence.
In addition, Mr Ireland is facing a further 22 charges, including rape of a child under 13, sexual assault, making indecent photographs of children, and possession of an extreme pornographic image. Mr Sutton is also charged with a further seven offences, including making indecent photographs of children and distributing indecent photographs of a child.
Grim.
Update: Oh look there’s more.
He’s a diversity trainer – of course he is. He gives DEI training to the police – of course he does.
I wonder if the police might have caught up with him sooner if they’d siphoned off some of the resources that had been allocated to investigating –and punishing– ribbons, stickers, and limericks.