Registered offender denies sex charge

Nicholas Askins, prosecuting, yesterday told Leeds Crown Court that in October last year Lee Adams was on the sex offender register and subject to monthly visits by the police.

He was last seen on September 13. The offences against the schoolboy are said to have happened on October 14.

Adams, 45 of Moor Crescent Chase, Beeston, Leeds denies kidnapping the 11-year-old, false imprisonment, administering a substance with the aim of stupefying or overpowering him and sexual assault.

The prosecution claim the boy was taken to Adams’s flat, locked in, given something to drink which made him fall asleep and was then molested.

Mr Askins gave the jury details of previous offences committed by Adams beginning with October, 1987 when he was convicted at Leeds Crown Court of an indecent assault on a male under 16.

While babysitting a 13-year-old boy he was said to have pushed him on to a sofa and simulated sex with him.

On February 19, 1988 he was convicted at the same court on three charges of indecent assault on boys after he took them into a park, forced them to remove clothing and lie on the ground where he simulated sex with them.

At Huddersfield Crown Court on January 2, 1991 Adams was convicted of an indecent assault on a male under 16 where he befriended the victim over two days and allowed him to ride on his bicycle.

The jury heard he then took him to a quiet area in a park, tripped him up and forced him to the ground. He covered his victim’s mouth so he could not make any noise, and touched the boy indecently before the victim kicked him in the groin and ran off.

On September 21, 2001 at Bradford Crown Court Adams was convicted of an indecent assault on a boy after he took the victim to a caravan.

The trial continues on Monday.