00:00Jeffrey manipulated both young victims and exploited the trust they had in him.
00:05Eleanor, on a number of reported occasions from both victims,
00:09was either explicitly told about the abuse by the victims themselves
00:12or witnessed his sexual advances first hand.
00:16My team and I welcome today's sentencing.
00:19Our job as police officers is to pursue a criminal justice outcome and we have done just that.
00:25As the police service we know the impact that serious sexual crime has on victims
00:30and we have approached this case as we do all others,
00:33focusing on the perpetrators and supporting the victims.
00:38Whilst living in silence and fear of the repercussions of telling someone
00:43or of not being believed, both brave women have suffered immeasurably
00:47as they come to terms with what has happened to them as children.
00:50We robbed them both of their childhood and innocence.
