Man who abused six-year-old girls as teen jailed

A man who sexually abused two six-year-old girls when he was a teenager has been jailed.

Connor Parsons was 14 when he committed sexual offencesagainst the girls in a village near Cirencester. He also sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl in 2019, when he was 21.

Parsons, 27, was handed a four-year prison sentence on Monday and was told he must serve at least two thirds of it behind bars.

Speaking after the hearing, Gloucestershire Police's investigating officer in the case said Parsons had targeted the girls and isolated them before committing "heinous" sexual offences.

"Two of the girls were so young they didn't even know or understand what had happened to them until they were much, much older," they added.

Police started investigating Parsons in 2022 after his first two victims separately told school professionals what had happened.

In November 2025, he pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault, causing or inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity, and one count of sexual activity with a child.

The two girls he abused when they were six years old both read statements during the sentencing hearing at Gloucester Crown Court.

One of the victims said: "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.

"By the time I reached 14, the age he was when it happened, I started to think how unbearable the thought of someone my age doing what he did to children really was. And I realised that his actions weren't just uncomfortable, they were wrong."

She described feeling "violated" and said the anger she felt towards Parsons "fuelled" her to fight for justice.

"I wanted to stop him from being able to do this to anybody ever again," she added.

The second victim told the court: "To not truly know what Connor did to me during the times I was alone with him is really scary."

She said Parsons changed the course of her life, and added: "I will never truly know how different things would have been had he not abused me when I was six."

Parsons met his third victim, who was 13, in a park before taking her to a wooded area where he sexually abused her.

In a statement read to the court, she said the assault was "a turning point" in her life.

"Had this not happened to me when I was young, I don't know where I would be, how different my life would be," she said.

"Following what happened I didn't care for life or consequences of anything. It had a massive impact on my physical health and mental health."

During the sentencing hearing, Judge Rupert Lowe said Parsons had suffered significant neglect and abuse as a child, but said that did not excuse any criminal behaviour.

As well as his prison sentence, Parsons was handed a 10-year restraining order and a 10-year sexual harm prevention order which prohibits him from having contact with a girl under 16.

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