Care worker admits sexually abusing woman at Harrogate care home
A former care worker has been told to expect a jail sentence after he admitted sexually abusing a woman with a mental disorder at a care home in the Harrogate area.
Carl McQuilliam-Jenkins, 49, was charged with a string of sexual offences which occurred over a seven-month period.
He initially denied the allegations but pleaded guilty to three out of six charges of sexual activity with a mentally disordered woman by a care worker when he appeared at York Crown Court on Wednesday (January 26).
The offences occurred between July 2019 and January 2020.
Prosecutor Catherine Silverton said the Crown accepted his pleas on a “pragmatic basis” and would offer no evidence on the remaining allegations.
Judge Simon Hickey adjourned sentence for probation reports but told McQuilliam-Jenkins that prison was inevitable, and the only consideration would be length of sentence.
He told the defendant: “You pleaded guilty to three instances of serious sexual activity with someone with a mental-health disorder.
“You can have a (pre-sentence) report, but you must be under no illusions that the report goes to length of sentence only.”
McQuilliam-Jenkins, of Howarth Terrace, Haswell, Durham, was granted bail until sentencing on March 1.