A 21-year-old man has been sent to prison after breaching his interim Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).
A SHPO is a court order designed to protect the public from sexual harm by restricting an individual's behaviour.
Charley Currie, 21 of, Rinkfield, Kendal, a registered sex offender who was subject to such an order, was sentenced on 17 July after pleading guilty to two breaches at an earlier hearing.
The breaches, which occurred in Kendal, included two occasions where he approached a child under the age of 16 in a public place - a strict prohibition on his interim order imposed by Barrow Magistrates Court in January of this year.
Currie received a 9 month prison sentence.
DC Francis Bowers, from Cumbria’s Management of Sexual & Violent Offenders (MOSOVO) team said: “Currie clearly poses a risk to children which has been demonstrated in two brazen breaches of the court order imposed against him.
“He was well aware of the strict conditions of his SHPO yet showed complete disregard for them and approached children on two occasions.
“We would like to reassure the community that we will continue working hard to bring more people like Currie to justice and get them behind bars.
“Cumbria’s MOSOVO team are committed to managing sexual offenders and will take a zero-tolerance approach against anyone found to breach the terms of these preventative orders.”