January 2016

‘My daughter’s sex attacker should be sent to prison’

THE mother of a young girl who was sexually assaulted by a man in his twenties says she wants him sent to prison.

The girl was just nine when she was attacked by Luke Jackson.

Jackson, 25, admitted the assault and also pleaded guilty to stealing £9,500 from his grandfather, who is 84 and suffers from dementia.

Jackson, of Harley Street, west Hull, appeared at Hull Crown Court for sentencing yesterday. 

January 2016

Serving police officer admits sexual activity with schoolgirl – Denies rape

A police officer is facing the end of his career today after he admitted a charge of sexual activity with a schoolgirl he is also accused of raping.

PC John Wigglesworth, 46, contacted the 14-year-old using social media under the alias John Smith and username ‘Bluestar212’.

He is alleged to have arranged to pick her up from school and driving her to his house in Dagenham where he would then force her upstairs and attack her.

The victim, who is now 22 told the jury at Snaresbrook Crown Court that she trusted Wigglesworth because he was a policeman and agreed to meet him as she had nobody else to talk to.

She added that the cop later warned her that she would be the one in trouble if she reported it. Wigglesworth was eventually tracked down and arrested last August and told arresting officers: ‘It was just kissing and cuddling.’

After a short stint working in the response units he then moved to the Road and Traffic Policing Command within the same borough.

He is currently suspended from duty and has been since his arrest last August.

Wigglesworth recalled setting up profiles on dating websites including lookitsme.co.uk who would sometimes share user details with other sites – perhaps Netlog – who would then invite you to join.

Jurors were told he went under the username ‘Bluestar212’ which came from a childhood remark about the colour of his eyes and the racing number of stock car legend Frankie Wainman.

He also used the names John Smith and Jonny Blue Eyes. ‘It was partly because [Wigglesworth] was the butt of jokes, people find it funny,’ he said. ‘Also because of my job, we are told at work to be careful on social media about what we put out there and identifying ourselves due to possible criminal elements of the world finding out who we were and targeting us.’

He described ‘definitely two ladies’ that he met up with and slept with through the websites.

The officer claimed to have met his alleged victim through the ‘lookitsme’ site which uses location settings to put you in touch with people in close proximity. ‘Initially she would ask and text me to say to say she was going to be in a certain place,’ said Wigglesworth. Then on a ‘bright, clear, sunny, day’ in Autumn 2007 he did pick her up around 150m from her school and drove the short distance to his home in Dagenham.

‘We were talking, chatting, getting on quite well,’ he said. ‘We might have kissed at that point, just being nice, saying how it was nice to see each other and meet each other.’ Wigglesworth conceded that the two of them did then go upstairs to his bedroom after his landlord arrived but insisted they did not have sex. ‘It was more just touching,’ he said. ‘I may have caressed her thigh, stroking her back, while we were kissing.’

It was at that point that the policeman claims to have realised how much trouble he could be in and halted the situation.

After exchanging messages for a while Wigglesworth again arranged to pick the girl up and bring her to his house where he claimed the girl was ‘perfectly fine’ as they moved onto the bed.

‘I was inside her for a short time and suddenly there was this blinding realisation that I was in a situation that I really should not be in,’ he told the jury. ‘I realised that what I was doing was wrong. ‘I was having sex with someone I should not be having sex with.’

Wigglesworth then attempted to distance himself and even concocted a fake motorcycle story as an excuse for not speaking to her for three weeks.

Aside from a girl who turned out to be his alleged victim getting in touch through the BMW motorcycle forum UKGSer he told the jury he had no more contact with her.

He then told the jury of the ‘panic’ that came over him when he was arrested for rape and sexual activity with a child last August.

‘I think that was when the panic really set in because I could not equate rape with what I knew had happened,’ he said. ‘I just could not put the two things together and it just freaked me out.’

Wigglesworth, of (52) The Ridgeway, Harold Wood, Romford, denies three counts of rape.

He has admitted one charge of sexual activity with a child.

The trial continues. 

January 2016

Sex predator paedophile jailed for seven years

A PERVERTED “predator paedophile” has been jailed for seven years after leaving one of his victims “cursed” and “devastated” by the impact of his “filthy lust”.

His offences against young girls were “grotesque” and of “the utmost gravity”, a court heard.

Leon Symonds, 41, of Macaulay Cottages, Aylesby, near Grimsby, admitted indecent assault, causing a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and failing to register as a sex offender.

Craig Lowe, prosecuting, told Grimsby Crown Court that Symonds intimately touched a young girl as she slept.

She awoke to find him with her.

They had earlier been to a pop concert in Cleethorpes and she stayed with him afterwards.

The girl was left scared and told him: “Just leave me alone.”

She told the court in a victim impact statement that she felt “worthless and cheated” and had struggled to come to terms with what had happened.

In another incident, Symonds asked another young girl to become involved in sexual activity – and threatened to hit her if she didn’t do what she said.

Symonds had been jailed for two years and three months in August 2012 for sexually assaulting a child.

He had been ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years but failed to go to the police station on March 11 to register his details.

Charlotte Baines, mitigating, said Symonds originally blamed drug taking for the offences but recognised the impact on the victims.

There was no physical contact with the girl involved in the sexual activity – or even an attempt to touch her in any way.

Judge Peter Kelson QC told Symonds: “You are a paedophile and the sooner you realise this in yourself, the better.”

Symonds had “devastated” the life of the indecent assault victim and had “cursed her” by his behaviour.

“Do not ever forget how you devastated that girl’s life by your filthy lust,” said Judge Kelson.

The incitement offence was “grotesque” and of “the utmost gravity” and Symonds acted as a “predator paedophile”.

Judge Kelson added: “You must acknowledge you have paedophile tendencies. You are a dangerous offender.”

Symonds, formerly of Leggott Way, Stallingborough, was given an indefinite sexual harm prevention order and must register as a sex offender for life.

January 2016

A MAN caught with indecent images and child sex chat on his mobile phone claims he has no interest in young people.

Daniel Shields’s solicitor told Teesside Crown Court that he is not “fascinated or obsessed” with child abuse.

John Nixon, mitigating, said the number of pictures found – four – show the downloading activity was “fleeting”.

January 2016

Child rapist found guilty of sexually abusing four girls

A child rapist has been found guilty of sickening assaults on four girls.

Sydney McDonald, 62,of Hartlepool, appeared at Teesside Crown Court today.

He was found guilty of 14 charges including child rape, indecent assault, indecency with a child and sexual assault against four female children, dating from the 1970s to 2013.

McDonald’s last known address was Staithes Court in Hartlepool.

Detective Constable Debbie Southall, of Cleveland Police, said: “McDonald systematically abused those young girls who held his trust.

“Today he is finally behind bars and hopefully those affected by his actions can now put their ordeal behind them and begin to get on with their lives.”

He has been remanded in custody until his sentencing in a few weeks.

July 2010

Blackburn pervert who raped young girl jailed for eight years

A 25-YEAR-old Blackburn man has been jailed for eight years for raping a seven-year-old girl.

Gareth Hodgeon, of Whalley New Road, Blackburn, was convicted of raping and indecently assaulting the girl nine years ago.

Hodgeon was aged 16 at the time of the offences, which took place in Preston.

The victim is also from the Preston area.

He has now been disqualified for life from working with children under 16 and given a Sexual Offences Prevention Order which stops any unsupervised contact with children.

Inspector Jonathan Holmes from Preston Public Protection Unit said: “I am extremely pleased with the sentence passed today and hope it provides some closure to the victim and her family.

“I hope this case sends out a clear message to offenders who think they can escape justice – you will be caught and brought before the courts for punishment.

“I also hope it gives hope to victims who believe that they will not be listened to and that this encourages them to come forward and make their complaint, however long ago the offences took place.”

January 2015: hassan meshedi has now been released and is living in the Bury/Oldham area

January 2014

Attempted abduction of young brothers was ‘sexually motivated’

Pictured: Hassan Meshedi (Left) & Aram Younis (Right)

TWO men described as ‘a high risk to children’ were jailed today, Thursday, for attempting to abduct two young brothers.

The boys, aged eight and ten, were on their way home after playing in a park when a car pulled up alongside them, Liverpool Crown Court heard.

The two Iranian occupants tried to entice the youngsters into the car. The younger boy moved to get in but his older brother pulled him away and they fled home.

The two perverts represented themselves in court after dismissing their own legal team, which meant they could question their young victims directly.

Jailing the driver Hassan Meshedi and passenger Aram Younis for five years each Judge Norman Wright said that he had concluded that the attempted abduction “must have been sexually motivated.”

He said that Younis did the talking: “You sought to inveigle these two small boys to get into your vehicle. Happily for them they obviously had loving, caring and sensible parents who had brought them up properly so that they knew how to respond to advances by total strangers.

“The older one had the presence of mind to stop his younger brother being beguiled by your words.”

Both men pose ‘a high risk to children’ according to the pre-sentence reports.

They denied the offence but a jury unanimously found Younis, aged 23, of Irvine Street, Leigh and Meshedi, aged 31, of Chapel Street, Leigh, guilty last month.

Graham Pickavance, prosecuting, told the court that statements revealed the impact on the boys, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, since the incident in Abram on July 13.

The older boy now struggles to sleep and regularly sleep walks while shouting for his little brother trying to make sure he is safe.

His brother has been suffering from nightmares, will not go upstairs in his home alone and also has trouble sleeping.

Their mother said she will not let them out of her sight and feels that the incident has affected their lives and childhood.

January 2016

Teen pleads guilty to rape of 13-year-old girl

A teenager who admitted raping a schoolgirl has been released on bail until his sentencing in February.

At Stoke on Trent Crown Court, Aiden Edwards, 18 admitted the charge of assault by penetration on a 13-year-old girl that took place in June 2014.

He was ordered to register as a sex offender

January 2016

Man jailed after admitting having sex with 14-year-old girl

A Letchworth man who admitted to having sex with an underage girl was handed a 12-month prison sentence by a judge.

Brian Purkiss, 25, of Campers Avenue, appeared at Huntingdon Crown Court yesterday after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing of engaging in sexual activity with a child.

The court heard that Purkiss had met the 14-year-old victim through a friend and started contacting her in 2013.

Claire Matthews, prosecuting, said: “The sexual activity continued from October 2013 to May 2014. She would meet up with the defendant in his car and would usually drive to Milton Country Park and have sex.”

Judge Jonathan Cooper was told that the victim sent a text message to Purkiss in the early stage of their relationship and told him she was only 14.

“He replied to her and said that age didn’t matter to him,” added Ms Matthews.

In 2014, the victim’s family became suspicious about the pair and went to the police at which point the pair said they had ‘done nothing wrong’.

During the police investigation it was found that Purkiss had hundreds of text messages and a lengthy record of phone calls between himself and victim, which he had attempted to delete but had been stored in the phone’s memory.

Sentencing, Judge Cooper described Purkiss as showing ‘no remorse’ and said that he had ‘a lot of growing up to do’.

The judge ordered him to serve half his sentence before he can be considered for release on licence and for that licence to run until the end of his sentence.

Purkiss was also ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register and was banned from having any contact with his victim for a period of 10 years, and from working with children indefinitely.

January 2016

Pervert pensioner pleads guilty to child abuse images

A pensioner downloaded indecent images of children and extreme pornography after becoming isolated following the death of his son, a court heard.

John Price, 69, of Nottingham Road, Ilkeston, pleading guilty to possession of 26 photos and videos stored on his computer, ranging from the most serious, Category A, to Category C.

Price was sentenced at Derby Crown Court on Friday. Prosecuting, Robert Sandford, said: “In September 2014 police officers attended Mount Pleasant Court in Grindleford. They recovered a laptop, computer tower, six usb memory sticks. These were subsequently examined and the images were discovered.”

They included: 12 category A movies and two images, five category B movies and two images, and three category C movies and four images.

He also hade more than 200 images of extreme pornography.

When interviewed by police, Price admitted the offence and said he got them from at least one website. There was no evidence that he had shared the images or videos.

Defending, Pamela Coxon, said: “He worked his whole life and retired at 60. His 34-year-old son died in 2009 while away in America. This caused him distress and appears to have had an effect on his mental health. He found himself lonely and isolated, living alone and depressed”

She said he had previously had three long-term relationships: “He started looking at dating websites and pop-ups led from one thing to another. He accepts he developed an unhealthy interest over a four year period.”

Judge Nirmal Shant QC sentenced Price to a three year community order, with supervision, and a community sex offenders group work programme. He will also have to sign the sex offenders register for five years.

January 2016

Fife man downloaded indecent child images

A Fife man has been sentenced for downloading indecent images of child sex abuse.

Pawel Wozniak, 31, of Shaw Street, Dunfermline, admitted that between September 6 2014 and February 19 2015 he downloaded indecent photographs of children.

Sheriff Charles MacNair told Wozniak: “Although the number found were small you had been deleting images as you went and it involved images at the most serious level.”

The sheriff said the image category system descriptions were “anodyne and can mask the true horror” of offences.

He added: “When the Crown talk about images and videos at category A, of which you had five videos, this is film of the rape of children.”

Wozniak was sentenced to a community payback order with three years’ supervision and 210 hours of unpaid work.

He will also be on a sexual offences protection order and the sex offenders register for five years.

January 2016

Paedophile faces jail after handing himself in for horror crimes

A paedophile is facing jail after he turned himself into police and admitted abusing two girls after his conscience got the better of him.

Graham Matthews, 57, walked into a police station just days before Christmas to confess a string of horrific sexual crimes against two girls aged under 13, between 2012 and 2015.

He then pleaded guilty at Taunton Crown Court to 18 sex offences against the children – including rape, sexual assault and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

Matthews, of Taunton, Somerset, appeared via video link from Exeter Prison, where he is on remand, and stared downwards as he pleaded guilty to each individual charge.

Ian Dixey, prosecuting, said: “He (Matthews) walked into the police station on December 15 and indicated that he wanted to admit the offences.

“At that stage there had been no complaint from the children.”

Mr Dixey said Matthews “clearly has a problem” and had previously been handed a community order with a rehabilitation requirement for two historical sex offences against children.

Sam Jones, defending, said: “He’s anxious that sentencing be dealt with as quickly as possible.”

Judge Geoffrey Mercer QC remanded Matthews in custody, placed him on the Sex Offenders’ Register, and adjourning sentencing until February 18.

January 2016

Psychotherapist who made explicit sexual images of children facing jail

Martin Hempel, 56, who provides what he describes as ‘person-centred, humanistic’ therapy, created the pictures including some which were of the very worst type including child rape.

Hempel claims to have worked with vulnerable clients suffering from multiple sclerosis and other disabilities while running the disabled people’s counselling project for Merton Mind.

An online advert for his counselling services states: ‘I hold a current Enhanced CRB check and I can visit you in your home if necessary and where appropriate.’

January 2016

Toxteth man found guilty of sexually abusing two boys

A Toxteth man was found guilty of sexually abusing two boys in the 1990s.

Patrick Hampson, 56, faced seven separate allegations of indecent assault in a trial at Liverpool Crown Court .

He was alleged to have abused two boys, one when he was aged 11, and the second when he was aged between eight and 10.

Hampson, formerly of Corinto Street, Toxteth, but now of Lord Nelson Street, Liverpool city centre , denied the offences.

The jury were directed to acquit him of one of the charges by the judge Recorder David Turner, QC.

But this afternoon jurors returned guilty verdicts on the remaining six counts against Hampson.

Prosecutors said Hampson showed the boys his stash of adult pornography and even tried to hypnotise one of them before carrying out the abuse.

Lee Bonner, prosecuting, said the defendant was around 32 when he began molesting Child A.

He said Hampson made inappropriate comments towards the boy about them touching each other and showed him pornography.

Mr Bonner said Child A recalled feeling “intimidated” by Hampson and was warned not to speak out.

He said Hampson played with himself and asked Child A to join in, later performing a sex act on the boy.

Mr Bonner said: “He was more ashamed than afraid and after that incident he says that he managed to stand up to him and that it never happened again.

“He however didn’t tell anybody about what had been happening until years later when in 2006, at age of about 25, he told his parents and first spoke to the police.”

The lawyer said Child B became aware of the allegations, but only felt able to speak to police in 2014.

He then alleged that he too had been abused by Hampson from the age of eight and 10.

Mr Bonner said Hampson would have been aged between 34 and 37 at the time.

Child B also said he saw pornographic magazines and that Hampson performed sexual acts on him.

Mr Bonner said: “He didn’t tell anybody about what was happening to him at the time and didn’t know that he wasn’t the only one.”

When interviewed by police, Hampson accepted that he had pornographic magazines and videos, but said these were hidden away and he did not show them to the boys.

He claimed he had only shown them cartoons and children’s films on a TV with a video player in his bedroom and that they must have found the porn without his knowledge.

Hampson said both of the alleged victims must be lying – an assertion he repeated in court, when he insisted “nothing at all happened”.

Recorder Turner said the paedophile would be sentenced on February 12 and remanded him on bail.

January 2016

Former Eton College pupil faces jail after being caught with 2,000 indecent images of children

A former Eton College student is today facing jail after admitting making and distributing indecent images of children.

Andrew Picard, 18, was found with more than 2,000 indecent images of children on his computer at the prestigious school near Windsor, Berkshire, a court heard.

Appearing before Judge Ian Pringle at Oxford Crown Court, Picard admitted 10 counts of child abuse images  

The offences dated from January 4 to February 25 2015, when Picard made indecent images of youngsters and shared them via chat messages on Skype.

Picard admitted one count of possessing indecent pictures of children, one count of making indecent pictures of children and eight counts of distributing indecent photos or recordings of a child.

Prosecutor Claire Barclay said Picard was found to have some 622 category A images of children, the most extreme kind, 1,062 category B images, and 725 category C images on computers and a removable storage device.

‘You can see from the charges that they are extremely serious,’ she previously told the bench at Oxford Magistrates’ Court.

‘They include the fact that Mr Picard had in his possession 1,000 images of child abuse – a great proportion of these being category A.’

She told the court that the schoolboy had shared videos on Skype under a range of different usernames or aliases. 

He today admitted possessing indecent pictures of children for show on February 25, 2015 at Eton.

This included 1,185 indecent images and videos which were stored on an external hard-drive, laptop and thumb drive with view to being distributed.

He pleaded guilty to making 193 indecent photographs of a child at Eton between January 4 and February 25 last year. 

Picard, of Westminster, London, was granted conditional bail provided that he does not have any unsupervised contact with anyone aged under 18 years. 

He will be sentenced at the same court next month. 

January 2016

Child rapist walks free after judge heard his pregnant sister was raped and murdered

A teenager today walked free for raping a young girl – after a judge heard how his heavily pregnant sister was raped and murdered.

Luke Grender, aged 18, was in tears as the judge let him off with a suspended jail term after he admitted three charges of raping a child under 13.

The judge said Grender’s family had suffered “more heartbreak” than nearly any other family who came into contact with the courts.

Judge Philip Richards told sobbing Grender: “You must not think you are getting away with it”.

The court heard how Grender’s thinking was “twisted” after his sister Nikitta, 19, was stabbed to death two weeks before she was due to give birth to a baby daughter almost five years ago.

The baby also died when Nikitta was knifed in the stomach by bouncer Carl Whant,27, who torched the teenager’s flat to disguise the crime.

Whant later yawned in the dock when he was jailed for 35 years.

In the same court today the judge heard how Grender had dragged his schoolgirl victim upstairs by her hair and raped her.

He admitted three charges of raping the girl when he was aged 16 and 17.

Prosecutor John Lloyd told Newport crown court: “The defendant began pestering her for sex. When she refused he threatened to drag her up the stairs.

“When she refused again he did – he took her by the hair and dragged her up the stairs. He pulled down her leggings and intercourse took place.”

The prosecutor outlined details of a second occasion Grender raped the girl.

He said: “She was fully clothed. The defendant pinched and punched her when she wouldn’t agree.

” She then took off her clothes under pressure and sexual intercourse took place. Bruising on the hips and arms were visible following the incident.

“Since this incident she doesn’t feel like a person anymore. She doesn’t trust anyone.

“She said: ‘I want to go out with friends without looking over my shoulder. I want to look forward to the future’.”

Defence lawyer James Tucker said: “Your honour will remember a haunting picture five years ago, of the defendant with his parents outside this building as the superintendent read out a 35-year-life sentence for the killing of his sister.

“While the empathy or sympathy one may feel is tempered by the seriousness of the offence, one of the contortions twisting the thinking of Luke is that he has ended up in some way blaming himself for being so close to his sister so soon before she was killed.

“There is no indication that outside of this case he has behaved inappropriately to a child – and he has shown respect to both women and girls.”

Mr Tucker said the “harm done to this adolescent boy” happened shortly before he committed the crimes.

Passing sentence, judge Richards said he would spare Grender an immediate jail term on the grounds that the case was “quite exceptional by any standards.”

The judge told Grender: “You must not think you are getting away with it.

“Your conduct towards this young girl was entirely unacceptable.

“Experience tells us that later in life it becomes much more difficult to live with the way you treated her.

“It is likely she will have appalling reflections on this ordeal for the rest of her life.

“I must emphasise that this sentence does not reduce the seriousness of what you have done.”

Handing Grender a two-year suspended jail sentence, judge Richards said: “You and your family have undergone more heartbreak than nearly any other family in the context of the work we undergo.

“I am very aware that you fear a custodial sentence, and I recognise that you would have difficulty sustaining such a sentence.

“There could be enormous consequences should an immediate sentence be imposed.

“And I believe that the reality is that a sentence in the community will offer you more help and protect the public more quickly, than a short prison sentence – that you would struggle to cope with.”

Grender, from Newport, Gwent, will also be listed on the sexual offenders register for 10 years.

An outraged rape charity hit out at the “soft sentence” imposed by the judge.

Geri Burnikell, co-ordinator of rape and child abuse group SupportLine, said: “It’s disgusting isn’t it?

“A suspended sentence is totally inappropriate for rape – whatever the circumstances.

“This must compound the suffering for the victim and it’s a shame the judge seemed to feel more for the perpetrator than what was best for the victim.

“The message it sends out to other people is that if you have heartbreak in your family and then commit rape you could get a lenient sentence.

“This man committed rape and should be put away for rape.”

July 2011

Man with ‘dominant personality’ admits sexual activity with ‘vulnerable’ teenager

A LORRY driver who sexually corrupted a vulnerable teenage girl “leaving very, very deep scars” has been jailed at Northampton Crown Court.

Ken Garrett, 47, was jailed for 40 months having pleaded guilty to five sexual activity offences, prior to standing trial last month.

He was ultimately acquitted of more serious allegations of indecency and sexual activity with a child.

It had been alleged the lorry driver waged a campaign of sexual abuse, said to have started when his victim was under 16.

But the jury accepted his account that sex only started after her 17th birthday, which he accepted and so pleaded guilty to the relevant offences.

John Lloyd-Jones, prosecuting, said the offences had left his teenage victim, who cannot be named, terrified.

He said: “She describes living her life feeling angry and upset, suffering sleepless nights and panic attacks.

“She said she felt the whole process of going to court was an ordeal.

“She is very scared of this defendant as he has threatened her and she is frightened of what he might do to her when released. She describes her confidence and self esteem as very low.”

Judge Charles Wide QC said it was clear Garrett, of West Oval, Kings Heath, Northampton, was a sex offender with “an extremely dominant personality.”

He added: “The sentence I pass will be completely loyal to the jury’s verdicts but as I said after the jury delivered their verdicts, I have taken the view she was very vulnerable.

As well as perverted sexual practices, one of the features of this conduct was the use of drugs and excessive use of alcohol.”

Garrett was jailed for three years and four months, will be on the sex offenders’ register for life and is banned from ever making contact with his victim.

January 2016

Northamptonshire paedophile who sexually abused girl jailed for seven years

A Northamptonshire man who was convicted of sexually abusing a young girl has been given a seven-year jail sentence.

Christopher Rodgers, aged 43, of Welford Avenue, Irthlingborough, was found guilty of sexual activity with a child after a trial.

At Northampton Crown Court on Friday, Judge Michael Fowler sentenced Rodgers to seven years in jail.

He was also sentenced to a further two months after he admitting failing to attend court on a previous occasion.

He is likely to serve half his sentence before being released on licence. He will be on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life.

September 2015

Former soldier jailed for raping schoolgirl

A former soldier who repeatedly raped a vulnerable 14-year-old girl has been jailed for seven years.

Christopher Rodgers, 28, from Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, was convicted of abusing the girl between December 2013 and June 2014.

At the High Court in Glasgow, he was told he would be monitored for two years after his release from jail due to the risk he posed to the public.

Rodgers was also placed on the sex offenders’ register.

Judge Kenneth Maciver QC told him: “You repeatedly raped a 14-year-old girl over a six-month period.

“You knew she was vulnerable. Sexual intercourse with you was never a matter of choice for her, it was forced upon her.

“The girl says in her victim impact statement she has continuing distress and emotional difficulties because of the crime of rape perpetrated on her.”