A Selby man has been charged with child sex offences.
He is one of a group of men who have been charged by Warwickshire Police after alleged offences involving a female child aged between 11 and 14.
They are reported to have taken place in locations including Warwickshire, North Yorkshire, Darlington, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Northumbria between 2018 and 2021.
Richard Lee, 22, of Westbourne Grove, Selby, is charged with three counts of making an indecent image of a child.
While some of his co-accused appeared at Warwick Crown Court today, Lee did not.
Eleven men stood in the dock separated into two different hearings in front of Judge Kristina Montgomery.
Jack Forrest, 22, of Shilton Lane, Coventry, denied sexual assault of a child under 13, sexual activity with a child and two counts of rape.
Louis Gaskin, 22, of Windmill Lane, Balsall Common, West Midlands, denied four counts of making indecent photographs of a child.
George Flannigan, 21, of The Mead, Darlington, Durham, denied rape of a child under 13, and two counts of making indecent photographs of a child
John Jenkins, 23, of Lime Lane, Walsall, West Midlands, denied a count of rape.
Henry Brazil, 23, of Hessam Heights, Morecambe, Lancashire, denied causing the sexual exploitation of a child and four counts of distributing indecent photographs of a child.
Teddy Jones, 23, of Smorrall Lane, Bedworth, Warwickshire, denied causing the sexual exploitation of a child.
Michael Wilshire, aged 23, of Mile Tree Lane, Coventry, also denied causing the sexual exploitation of a child.
William Evans, 23, of Long Lane, Walsall, West Midlands, who is charged with one count of causing the sexual exploitation of a child, and Billy Maguire, 20, of Top Road, Coventry, who is charged with rape of a child under 13 and five counts of sexual activity with a child, were not asked to enter pleas during the hearings.
Selby’s Richard Lee, and Henry Gaskin, aged 20, of Measham Road, Oakthorpe, Swadlincote, Derbyshire, did not appear in court for unrelated reasons. They were also not arraigned on Friday.
Charlie Lee, 30, of Mile Tree Lane, Coventry, pleaded guilty to seven indecent images offences at a previous court hearing and will be sentenced at a date to be decided, the court heard.
All men were told to appear at court again on November 7 for a further case management hearing.
