Irfan Fiaz sentenced for sexual activity with a child and child abduction offences

Irfan Fiaz

Irfan Mohammed Fiaz has been sentenced after pleading guilty to engaging in sexual activity with a child and child abduction offences in Rochdale.

Fiaz (03/07/1995), of Salik Gardens, Rochdale has been sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Courton Thursday (5 May), to three years in a young offenders institution and ordered to sign the sex offenders register indefinitely.

At an earlier hearing Fiaz pleaded guilty to engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a child, engaging in non-penetrative sexual activity with a child and taking a child so as to remove them from a person having lawful control.

Between 5 October 2015 and 14 October 2015, on three separate occasions a 14-year-old girl was reported missing from her home overnight in Rochdale.

On each occasion, 20-year-old Fiaz met with the girl and took her to his home address. Whilst inside the address he sexually abused her.

Due to concerns raised by a member of the public whilst she was missing, officers who were looking for the girl found her with Fiaz at his address.

During his police interview, Fiaz showed no remorse and blamed the child for the incident throughout.

Detective Constable Ben Harris of the Rochdale Sunrise Team said: “Fiaz is a predator who preyed on a vulnerable 14-year-old girl in a typical example of the boyfriend model of child sexual exploitation.

“He made her feel as though they were in a grown up relationship and encouraged her to stay over at his home address away from her parents, where he then exploited her. The fact he felt it was the child’s fault is disturbing and his lack of remorse is reflected in the sentence.

“We in the Sunrise team will continue to work tirelessly to investigate all reports of this nature and safeguard victims of exploitation.

Project Phoenix is a multi-agency response to CSE across the whole of Greater Manchester. The project brings together police, local authorities, NHS and third sector organisations, using their collective expertise to safeguard vulnerable young people at risk of exploitation and target those who would try to exploit them.

Visit www.itsnotokay.co.uk for information for children, young people, parents, carers and professionals on how to spot the signs of child sex exploitation and what to do about it.