An IT technician who asked two eight-year-old boys if he could drink their urine has been found guilty of inciting children to engage in sexual activity.
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- Day 1 - IT technician asked children if he could drink their urine, court hears
- Day 2 - IT technician viewed indecent images of children, court hears
- Day 3 - IT technician admits sexual interest in children, court hears
Calum O’Reilly Timms, of North Street, Martock, was on trial at Reading Crown Court this week after he was also accused of asking to touch the penis of one of the boys.
The allegations were made following incidents at Edgbarrow School on Thursday, August 5, 2021, in which the 25-year-old followed the boys - who were taking part in a summer camp - separately into the student toilets.
A jury heard how O’Reilly Timms asked the first boy if he could drink his urine and if he could touch his penis.
According to prosecutor Lisa Goddard, O’Reilly Timms’s hand was only two inches from the boy’s penis.
The eight-year-old said no to O’Reilly Timms and returned to his peers at the summer camp.
The second eight-year-old boy then also went to the toilet and O’Reilly Timms asked him the same question.
That evening, the boys told their parents about what happened and the police were informed.
O’Reilly Timms was arrested the next day (Friday, August 6), and subsequently charged with a number of offences.
This included viewing indecent images, which the jury heard were related to young children and urination.
Giving evidence from the witness box during his four-day trial, O’Reilly Timms admitted to having a sexual interest in images involving young children, urination and defecation.
Despite this, he denied being the person who had asked the two boys if he could drink their urine.
At Reading Crown Court on Thursday, August 11, a jury took three hours and 39 minutes to make their verdicts.
They unanimously found Calum O’Reilly Timms guilty of two counts of inciting a child under the age of 13 to engage in sexual activity and one count of attempted sexual assault of a child.
The 25-year-old IT technician, who had been setting up Edgbarrow School’s computer systems over the summer of 2021, did not react as the verdicts were read aloud.
O’Reilly Timms was bailed after the hearing.
He will be sentenced for these three offences - as well as viewing indecent images - at the same court on Friday, September 25.
His Honour Judge Burgess, presiding over the trial, said it was 'almost inevitable' O'Reilly Timms would be sent to prison.
Speaking to the News after the verdicts, the parents of the two boys said they were ‘relieved.’
They said: ‘We’re relieved, that’s the word.
‘This has been going on a long time for us, so I'm really looking forward to telling them [the boys] tonight about the news.
‘They will be happy now.’
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