Kerry Price, 53, of Tan-Y-Farteg, Ystradgynlais, denied all 15 charges but was convicted by a jury after four-and-a-half hours of deliberation.
The offences included three counts of sexual assault of a child, five counts of sexual assault, two counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity, and further charges of voyeurism, upskirting, and taking and making indecent images of children.
Judge Paul Thomas KC told the court that Price would face a “lengthy prison sentence” and ordered a pre-sentence report to assess the level of risk he poses. Price was remanded into custody and is due to be sentenced on 18 September.
The court heard that the first of the child sexual assault charges related to a girl aged five or six. The allegations came to light in August 2023, leading to Price’s arrest on 11 August.
Following his arrest, police seized and forensically examined his devices. Prosecutor Helen Randall said officers discovered five Category A and 20 Category C indecent images of children on Price’s phone — the most serious category involving penetrative sexual activity.
Investigators also found search terms including “naked teen girls” and “naughty school girls nude”, along with alleged voyeuristic and upskirting images, one of which showed Price’s face.
Price was re-arrested in February 2024. In interview, he claimed the images had been copied to his phone accidentally while charging it via a customer’s laptop. He said he deleted them immediately.
However, a digital forensic examiner told the court the images had been accessed 14 times between March 2021 and March 2023, and said he had never encountered images transferring between devices without user interaction.
Price denied all allegations, claiming the child sex offences “never happened” and that other sexual contact had been consensual.
He will now be placed on the sex offenders register as a result of his convictions.
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