What an excellent result for North Yorkshire Police Ex-Detective Sergeant and Inspector Christopher Hogg receiving a suspended sentence for raping boys back in the 80s, it could make paedophiles think it is an excellent move to join the police before getting caught.
Christopher Hogg, 56, a former Detective Sergeant and Inspector of North Yorkshire Police, committed the offence in Scarborough during his adolescence in the mid-1980s; however, the victim did not report it to the authorities until 40 years later, as stated by York magistrates.
Additional victims from that era emerged in 2016 when Christopher Hogg, who had been a member of the county police department for over three decades, was suspended from his responsibilities following allegations of historical child sexual abuse in Scarborough during his adolescence.
In November 2017, Christopher Hogg was jailed for two-and-a-half years for indecently assaulting a child aged between 14 and 16 and two counts of gross indecency with a child under 14 after being convicted by a jury at Sheffield Crown Court.
After his release from prison, another victim came forward, accusing him of indecent assault in Scarborough in the 1980s.
Christopher Hogg, formerly of Scarborough but now living in Selby, was charged with that offence in January 2017, when he was suspended from his police duties.
Christopher Hogg admitted the offence, which occurred around the same time as the other sexual offences. He appeared at York Magistrates’ Court for sentence on September 25 after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting a man aged 16 or over.
None of the offences occurred when Christopher Hogg was a serving police officer (of no consolation for the survivors).
Prosecutor Antony Farrell said that Christopher Hogg had touched the victim intimately underneath his clothes when the defendant himself was 17 years of age.
At the trial in 2017 in respect of the other offences, the court heard that Christopher Hogg was a teenager when he sexually touched a much younger boy in a village near Scarborough.
A second boy, who was also younger than Christopher Hogg, was sexually assaulted at a property in the area in the mid-1980s.
Christopher Hogg joined North Yorkshire Police in 1988 and worked in the York Investigation Hub before his suspension.
Kevin Blount, mitigating, said that Hogg had “struggled with his sexuality” in his teenage years when the offences were committed in the 1980s.
He said that at the time, Christopher Hogg was “having a large number of sexual encounters” and trying to overcome his childhood traumas.
He said that Christopher Hogg had joined the police cadets in his younger years and North Yorkshire Police, where he “rose to the rank of inspector before the allegations came out”.
Christopher Hogg was at that time a married father-of-two, but “all his life fell apart around him” after being convicted of the offences.
His distinguished public service “came crashing down when he found himself, a serving officer, serving a prison sentence.”
“It cost him his marriage and career,” added Mr Blount.
Following his release from prison, Hogg underwent rehabilitative work and “since then, he has begun the difficult process of trying to piece his life back together”.
He had found new employment, and that work would still be available if he managed to avoid an immediate prison sentence.
Mr Blount said that Christopher Hogg was “extremely remorseful” for his behaviour as a teenager.
He added that Hogg “does not represent a risk” to children and did not have any sexual interest in them.
Malcolm Dodds, chairman of the magistrates’ bench, clearly with no grip on reality, said. However, the ‘new’ offence “clearly” merited a jail sentence; it could be suspended because of Christopher Hogg’s age, the fact that it happened about 40 years ago and the steps he had since taken “to address your offending behaviour”.
He also noted that Christopher Hogg still had a “strong relationship” with his family, had new employment, and the defendant had already been rehabilitated since his jail sentence in 2017.
Christopher Hogg received a four-month suspended jail sentence and was ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs.
He was ordered to sign on the sex offenders register for seven years. Still, he was already subject to the exact notification requirements for an indefinite period from his previous conviction.
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