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(UK) Pride group founder, 42, who raped a 12-year-old boy he met on dating app Grindr is jailed alongside his partner
UK Mail ^ | 30 June 2025 | By TOM LAWRENCE

Posted on 06/30/2025 12:42:09 PM PDT by dennisw

The founder of a Pride group, who raped an 'extremely vulnerable' boy who he met on Grindr, has been jailed for 13 years.

Stephen Ireland, 42, who co-founded Pride in Surrey in 2018, raped the child at the flat he shared with his then partner and co-defendant David Sutton, 27, in Addlestone on April 19, 2024.

Ireland had arranged for the 12-year-old boy, referred to in court as Child A, to meet him at his flat after messaging on dating app Grindr, the court heard.

The boy, who had been reported missing at the time, told police they had sex in the flat.

The boy said they also smoked a bong which was later found to have contained methamphetamine, and that pornography was played on a laptop.

Judge Patricia Lees, sentencing at Guildford Crown Court on Monday, told the hearing Ireland 'took advantage' of a vulnerable child.

She said: 'Stephen Ireland is a man who prided himself on being versed in and highly alive to the vulnerabilities of young people linked to the Surrey Pride organisation he was at the time pivotal to.

'A was quite obviously to any adult an extremely vulnerable child who was highly sexualised.

The court heard the boy had initially told Ireland he was aged 17 - but when he later claimed to be aged 13, Ireland replied: 'OK - we just have to keep it a secret.'

'Your response was telling,' Judge Lees told Ireland, who sat in the dock dressed in a large red T-shirt and showed no emotions throughout the hearing.

'Far from finding that repugnant, you found that exciting, and sought to do it again.'

On the same day, Ireland asked the boy if he would have a threesome and sent the child pictures of himself and Sutton.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: childabuse; childrape; fdrq; gay; gaypride; grindr; homosexualagenda; notbusiness; pedophilia; pride; prideinsurrey; pridemonth; uk

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Stephen Ireland (pictured) , who co-founded Pride in Surrey in 2018, was jailed after being found guilty of raping a child at his flat
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Stephen Ireland (pictured) , who co-founded Pride in Surrey in 2018, was jailed after being found guilty of raping a child at his flat

1 posted on 06/30/2025 12:42:09 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

The real obscenity here is that this monster only got 13 years.


2 posted on 06/30/2025 12:43:34 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: dennisw

Guilty. Chop off his unit. Next in line.


3 posted on 06/30/2025 12:46:54 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: dennisw

He should have claimed he was Muslim. It’s the new black.


4 posted on 06/30/2025 12:52:44 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: dennisw

Seems there should be liability from grinder for allowing a 12 year old on their site.


5 posted on 06/30/2025 1:04:19 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: Gen.Blather

Yeah, I was wondering why a 12 year old was on Grindr


6 posted on 06/30/2025 1:28:08 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: dennisw

He’ll be living his dream in prison.


7 posted on 06/30/2025 1:35:55 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: crusty old prospector

They definitely need to slice the private parts off these perverts. Not to make them women but to make them harmless to everybody else.


8 posted on 06/30/2025 1:36:28 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: dennisw

Any comment on USAID financing the disgusting, pride ‘manifesto’ parade in Kiev, Ukraine ???

https://kyivpride.org/en/


9 posted on 06/30/2025 1:45:16 PM PDT by ANKE69 (“I said once that it smells of authoritarianism in our country. Now it stinks.” Vitali Klitschko)
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To: dennisw

Rope meet neck. . .


10 posted on 06/30/2025 1:47:35 PM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: dennisw

Sick and Demented....


11 posted on 06/30/2025 1:49:19 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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12 posted on 06/30/2025 1:55:36 PM PDT by ANKE69 (“I said once that it smells of authoritarianism in our country. Now it stinks.” Vitali Klitschko)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

He’ll be out in 2-3. Britain is lost.


13 posted on 06/30/2025 2:40:47 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ANKE69
Any comment on USAID financing the disgusting, pride ‘manifesto’ parade in Kiev, Ukraine ???

For shame, for shame, for shame ...

14 posted on 06/30/2025 2:44:55 PM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Darksheare

“...Yeah, I was wondering why a 12 year old was on Grindr...”

Indeed. Last I heard, in most jurisdictions, adult-oriented services are legally mandated to have pretty stringent age-checks in place.


15 posted on 06/30/2025 2:49:50 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: ANKE69

Hopefully that’s now come to an end, since the pride flags only help the Russians justify their own murder, rape and war.


16 posted on 06/30/2025 2:53:52 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Yeah these people are truly sick and shouldn’t be allowed to live in proper society


17 posted on 06/30/2025 3:46:54 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: dennisw

Grindr needs to be investigated. I’ve heard many underage kids are on that site, which is a gay social dating app. The boy isn’t innocent, since he did know what Grindr is.


18 posted on 06/30/2025 5:36:10 PM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: Gen.Blather
Seems there should be liability from grinder for allowing a 12 year old on their site.

Agree 100%

19 posted on 06/30/2025 5:58:06 PM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: Kriggerel

As a young person, I got around the age restriction by saying Yes to ‘Are you over 18?’. I wasn’t on Grindr, but a few adult stories sites (I was a horny teenager)😀


20 posted on 06/30/2025 6:01:52 PM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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