23 DEC 2015
Mother of victim sat unawares outside in her vehicle while Harvinder Singh molested girl who'd run in to buy ice cream
An Anglesey shopkeeper who sexually assaulted a young girl who went into his shop to buy ice has been spared jail.
Harvinder Sing, 53, who runs the Spar shop in Llanfairpwll , took the girl into a back room and molested her while her unawares mother waited in the car outside.
The judge in the case said it “beggared belief” and asked what the world was coming to.
Judge Niclas Parry said: “If a 12 year old child cannot go to a local shop on an errand for her mother, while her mother waits outside in the car, without that little girl being sexually assaulted by the owner of the shop, then what is the world coming to Mr Singh?”
The court heard he “isolated” the little girl by inviting her to the back room where he put his hands on her shoulders, put his face close to hers and asked her if she wanted to kiss him.
She refused, he asked her if she wanted a hug and proceeded to do so although she said no.
The girl tried to push him away, she was unable to do so because his grip was too tight, and he touched her breasts over her clothing which alarmed her.
In his basis of plea, which was not challenged by the prosecution, the defendant said that touching was not intentional.
Judge Parry said that he had done to her left her nervous and disgusted but she was clearly a little girl of some fortitude because she had used the shop since, but never alone.
The judge said that Singh, of Cae Cnyciog, Llanfair PG, was a man of no previous convictions, who importantly admitted to the police what he had done and pleaded guilty at a preliminary stage.
His true character came out when he apologised immediately the police spoke to him.
There had been delays in the case – the incident happened precisely 12 months to day – and if he was sent to prison it would be for a very short period.
He would be released back into the community without any opportunity to deal with the issues that he clearly had.
"For that reason, with the protection of the public in the forefront of my mind, the sentence will be suspended,” Judge Parry said.
Prosecuting barrister Anna Pope said the girl told her mother straight away but a formal complaint was not made until March.
The incident had left the girl anxious and distressed, she was upset that people had not initially believed her, and her mother had said they would have to consider moving.
She had also been concerned about the delays in the case.
Bernice Campbell, defending, said that the defendant was totally remorseful and upset at himself, could not understand why he had done it, and felt that he had disgraced his family and his religion.
“He is confused why he acted this way,” she said, but supervision would assist him in that regard.
Despite what had happened he had received support from the local community.
Judge Parry decided against jailing Singh, who followed the proceedings at Mold Crown Court with the help of a Punjabi interpreter.
Instead he was given an eight-month sentence suspended for a year and was put on a 40 day rehabilitation course.
He was also made to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years.
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