Brentwood: Man charged with multiple offences including exploitation

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:

• Rape of a girl aged 13/14/15
• Assault a person thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm
• Three counts of arranging or facilitate travel of another person with a view to exploitation
• Custody or control of a thing knowing it was a counterfeit currency note
• Adult meeting a girl under 16-years of age following grooming
• Two counts of causing a child aged 13-15 to look at an image of sexual activity
• Two counts of causing a girl aged 13-15 to engage in sexual activity
• Engaging in sexual activity with a girl aged 13-15
• Two counts of production of a controlled drug of Class B
• Adult meeting a girl under 16 years of age following grooming

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.