April 2014
Virgin paedophile driven from school to police station for grooming deaf Derby schoolgirl
A VIRGIN pervert groomed a “profoundly deaf” Derby schoolgirl over Facebook.
Mohammed Raja arranged to meet the 15-year-old at the gates of her school and arrived at lunchtime holding a suitcase.
But a friend of the victim and her sister, who were also at the gates, became suspicious, challenged him and urged him to get into their car as he tried to escape.
Once inside, they told the 24-year-old they were going to take him home to Birmingham, but instead drove him straight to a police station, where he was arrested.
Raja was jailed for 16 months at Derby Crown Court while the two girls who helped snare him have been awarded almost £1,000 from the public purse for being “instrumental” in helping bring him to justice.
Jailing Raja, of Ladypool Road, Birmingham, Judge John Burgess said: “Girls aged 15 are vulnerable anyway because of their age.
“But this girl was particularly vulnerable because of her profound deafness.
“You talked to her over Facebook about marriage and making her pregnant.
“You saw her on Skype and knew she was deaf because you could see both of her hearing aids.
“You are also an overstayer and I imagine the immigration authorities will deport you back to Pakistan when you are released from prison.
“Having you deported is something I am going to recommend.”
The identity of the victim and the city school that she attends are protected by law.
Karen Davenport-Coles said Raja befriended the teen on Facebook in September.
She said: “She received a friend request from a stranger, which she accepted, and they started exchanging messages.
“In one message, he told her he was horny and, in another, he posted a photograph of him only in his underwear.
“In November last year, he arranged to meet her at the gates to her school.
“One of her friends came out to meet her sister and he asked her if she knew who the victim was.
“Her sister said she knew the victim’s family and she called them.
“The defendant told her he was family and from Birmingham but, because he was carrying a suitcase, both girls became suspicious.”
Miss Davenport-Coles said Raja began to walk away from the school gates but the two girls followed him in a car and talked him into getting in the vehicle, saying they would drive him to Birmingham.
Instead, they took him straight to a police station.
Raja pleaded guilty to meeting a child following sexual grooming, although the court heard that the pair never actually met.
Andrew Wesley, for Raja, said his client “simply did not think through the consequences” of his actions.
Mr Wesley said: “He has not had a sexual relationship before and is a young man with few friends who lives away from his family and lives a fairly isolated existence.”
Judge Burgess called Raja “manipulative,” handed him a sexual offences prevention order and banned him from working with children for 10 years.
He said: “I commend the two girls, aged 15 and 19, who were instrumental not only in apprehending this defendant but also preventing what would have been a more serious crime.”
