Thomas Robert Peel indecently assaulted a young boy in Barnoldswick around 20 years ago and made him perform sex acts on him.
The 35-year-old defendant was a teenager when he committed the offences at the turn of the century and did it ‘as some form of sexual experimentation’.
A Judge said ‘the memory of that incident is seared onto [the victim’s] brain’ and that he ‘buried the memory of the abuse for many years’ until reporting it to police in 2018.
Preston Crown Court heard that when the allegations were first made Thomas Robert Peel’s wife ‘terminated’ their marriage and restricted access to his son.
He then relocated to Tenerife and worked as a bar manager before leaving the job a week before his sentence.
Thomas Robert Peel, of Barnoldswick, pleaded guilty to one count of indecency with a child and was found guilty after a trial of three other counts of indecency with a child.
Thomas Robert Peel was jailed for two years and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years.
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