Extraordinary.
Why is alcohol and drug abuse being put forward as a mitigating factor by the defence?
Why does a man who has contributed to the abuse of countless children not have to go to jail?
And five years on the register? Why not for life? It's not as if he's going to start stamp-collecting instead.
Kids, you don't matter, is what this is saying.
Also, I am fed up to the back teeth of the Daily Mail scrupulously adhering to wrong sex pronouns for men like this - the press guidelines are voluntary. Or they could use they/them at a push. Other news outlets manage it. No need to gaslight women, especially when the crime is so revolting.