Connor Parsons – Gloucester

MAN WHO SEXUALLY ABUSED CHILDREN HAS BEEN JAILED

In 2013 Connor Parsons was 14 years old when he committed sexual offences against two six-year-old girls in a village near Cirencester.

This included him exposing his penis to both of the children, and him trying to persuade and force one of the girls to perform oral sex on him.

He also sexually assaulted both of the children by touching their bodies and kissing one of them at an age when they could not consent.

Years later in 2022, both victims separately disclosed to professionals at their schools about what Mr Parsons had done to them, and police were informed.

In 2019, when Mr Parsons was 21, he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl.

He had met the victim in a park in Cirencester and took her to a wooded area where he sexually abused her, at an age when she legally could not consent.

Following an investigation by Gloucestershire Police’s Mr Rape and Serious Sexual Offences team Mr Parsons, who previously lived in Cirencester, was charged with several offences.

On 24 November 2025 at Ms Gloucester Crown Court, Mr Parsons pleaded guilty to causing or inciting a girl aged under 13 to engage in sexual activity – no penetration, two counts of sexual assault and one count of sexual activity with a child.

At Mr Parsons’ sentencing, “From the age of six, until the age of 14, I would remember snippets of the day I was assaulted and remember how uncomfortable Connor’s actions made me feel at the time.

And I realised that his actions weren’t just uncomfortable, they were wrong.

I wanted to stop him from being able to do this to anybody ever again.” The other victim who had been aged six at the time, also read her statement to the court.

I felt so relieved when Connor pleaded guilty.

It felt good to know that he had admitted to what he did to me and [victim’s name removed] and to know that he was in prison so he couldn’t do it to anyone else.

t know where I would be, how different my life would be.

It had a massive impact on my physical health and mental health.

It felt like a massive weight had been lifted off my shoulders for him to have taken responsibility for what had happened, that I wouldn’t have to go to court to try and defend myself and him to admit that what he did to me was wrong.” In mitigation, it was said Mr Parsons was of previous good character and he had lived in care as a child with disrupted experiences in education and accommodation.