{"id":111981,"date":"2024-04-13T10:53:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T15:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=111981"},"modified":"2024-04-13T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T16:15:52","slug":"saxon-founding-bassist-sentenced-to-prison-for-being-a-pedophile-raped-a-6-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=111981","title":{"rendered":"SAXON &#8211; Founding Bassist Sentenced To Prison For Being A Pedophile, Raped A 6-Year-Old Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Stephen Dawson<\/strong>, a co-founding member of English heavy metal band\u00a0<strong>SAXON<\/strong>, has been sentenced to six years in prison for child sex-related crimes. The 72-year-old musician was found guilty of four counts of indecent assault of a child under 14 by the courts and was sentenced yesterday, April 11th, following the conclusion of a trial in Sheffield, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saxon747.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"484\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-255.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111984\" style=\"width:602px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-255.png 980w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-255-600x296.png 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-255-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-255-768x379.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The incidents in question are said to have involved a six-year-old girl and took place back in the 1990s. According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68797713\">BBC<\/a>, Det Con Robert Heath, who oversaw the case, commented on the verdict and the victim:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cShe has shown extraordinary strength through coming forward. It is clear that his evil acts have remained with her throughout her life, and I hope this sentence goes some way to allowing her to move on from these traumatic events.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Dawson<\/strong>&nbsp;was fired from&nbsp;<strong>Saxon<\/strong>&nbsp;in 1986. He would later be involved in a dispute over the band\u2019s trademarks and would go on to perform in a different version of&nbsp;<strong>Saxon<\/strong>&nbsp;alongside the band\u2019s ex-guitarist&nbsp;<strong>Graham Oliver<\/strong>. That lineup continued to tour together through to last year under the name of&nbsp;<strong>Oliver\/Dawson Saxon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saxon747.com\/\">Saxon (saxon747.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Dawson, a co-founding member of English heavy metal band\u00a0SAXON, has been sentenced to six&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111988,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111981\/revisions\/111988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}