Published date: 01 April 2016 |
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A TEENAGER sexually attracted to girls as young as 10 has been locked up.
He admitted effectively grooming a girl of 12 at a time when he was under a court order for a similar offence against a 10-year-old girl.
Mold Crown Court heard the 17-year-old from Wrexham had got the 12-year-old to send him topless photographs of herself and he also sent her an explicit picture of himself.
The defendant, who had been placed in a specialist centre, was told he was being manipulative because he had been
co-operating with his rehabilitation while secretly offending again.
The youth, who cannot be publicly identified because of his age, received an 18-month detention and training order.
He must register with the police as a sex offender for five years and was given a five-year sexual harm prevention order, under which he must not approach the victim or have any contact with girls aged 16 or under.
Judge Niclas Parry, sitting at Mold Crown Court, told him he had been made the subject of a referral order in March of last year on a charge of inciting a girl aged 10 to engage in sexual activity.
Over the internet he asked her to remove her pyjama top. She told him that was wrong because she was only 10 and she would tell her mother, but he said if she did then he would kill himself.
He had been given a referral order for that offence but while apparently co-operating with that order he effectively groomed a girl aged 12.
They had exchanged photographs, he invited her to a party and asked her to go to his home to buy CDs.
It had been his intention to indulge in a sex act with her but she did not turn up, the judge said.
When they did meet up at another house he touched her in an intimate place over her clothing.
Text messages effectively amounted to pressure and blackmail where he put her under pressure.
The judge said it was “an extremely worrying case”. The youth targeted vulnerable young girls who he believed would comply with his sexual wishes and was confident is his ability to achieve them with the young girls compared to females of his own age.
The youth exerted control over them and the judge said he could not ignore that there was concern about his behaviour going back to 2012.
It was of concern that he continued to indulge in such behaviour despite the extensive help and support he had been given, said Judge Parry. He was secretive and manipulative, accessing the support service while concealing his offending.
The youth was a high risk of serious harm to young girls but the judge said the criteria to deal with him as a dangerous offender had not been reached.
“But the reality is that you continue to offend in a sexually harmful way despite receiving intensive supervision,” he said. The risk the defendant posed could not be managed in the community.
The youth admitted two charges of sexual assault on the girl, two of inciting her to engage in sexual acts, causing a child to watch a sexual act, arranging a child sexual offence and two charges of possessing indecent photographs.
Mark Connor, defending, said it was a stark choice for the court to allow the youth, who was intelligent and hoped to go on to university, to be supervised in the community or to be subject to custody.
He had made extremely good progress since his arrest, was addressing his difficulties, and Mr Connor urged the court to allow that support to continue.
The youth had matured and was confronting the difficulties he had, he said.
see-http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/160486/wrexham-teenager-17-sent-into-detention-for-grooming-girl-aged-12.aspx
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