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A man has been remanded into custody after being charged with 15 offences including sexual offences involving a child.
Timothy Brown, 36 of Vernon Crescent, Brentwood appeared at Southend Magistrates Court on Monday, 1 July to be formally charged with multiple offences following an investigation by our Child Sexual Exploitation Proactive Investigation Team.
The charges follow an investigation launched in June 2023 into sexual offences against children.
Timothy Brown has since been charged with:
Brown has been remanded into custody and will next appear at Chelmsford Crown Court on 29 July.
The CSE Proactive Investigation Team was formed July 2022 and deals with both reactive and proactive investigations that have been referred by partners or from other teams within Essex Police.
They take on both new and older referrals where conventional safeguarding tactics have been previously unsuccessful.
They deal with the most complex and difficult criminal investigations involving the sexual exploitation of children.
Offenders can be individuals or organised groups, they could be using fake profiles to groom young people online, or befriending them and giving them money or alcohol.
We use a variety of tactics to mitigate the threat they present.
This includes reactive investigations responding to referrals from victims, families, and partners as well as those identified through proactive intelligence gathering.
The team also work with our partners to ensure there are bespoke care plans for victims which mean they don’t have to speak to us if they don’t want to, but mean they are given proper support, assistance and guidance by trained professionals from the many children’s charities we work alongside in Essex.