Man, 19, abuses two schoolgirls after becoming warped by corrosive and destructive porn when he was a schoolboy… but AVOIDS jail

A 13-year-old boy influenced by ‘corrosive’ extreme pornography horrifically abused two schoolgirls, a court has heard.

Prosecutors told how the boy had forced the girls, also aged just 13 and 14, into bondage and strangled them during sex which they did not consent to.

The boy, who had been introduced to BDSM pornography at the age of 12, had been looking online for ’extreme bondage, domination and anal sex with young schoolgirls.’

Despite admitting 22 sexual offences, the defendant, now a man aged 19 – who cannot be identified to protect the anonymity of his victims – has been spared jail by a judge, who warned of the ‘destructive’ influence of such material.

It comes after the UK was thrown into a panic about the misogynist and highly sexualised attitudes of young children following the release of Stephen Graham’s four-part Netflix drama Adolescence. 

In the show, a 13-year-old schoolboy describes how he receives nude pictures of a girl in his year who he later murders, after being exposed to extreme online content.

Reading Crown Court heard how, in March 2021, the first victim to come forward disclosed to a member of staff at her school in Maidenhead, Berks., that she had been ‘physically and sexually abused’ by the boy for the last five months, the court heard.

Shaun Esprit, prosecuting, said the girl, aged 14 at the time, told police the boy would hold her down by her stomach or her arms to abuse her. She described how he would grab her breasts and pull her around aggressively.

A 13-year-old boy influenced by ‘corrosive’ extreme pornography horrifically abused two schoolgirls, Reading Crown Court heard

The girl said the boy, also aged 14 at the time, would pick up condoms and say to her ‘come on, let’s have sex’.

‘She felt she was too young, but the defendant would get angry’, Mr Esprit told a judge. ‘Most of the time she would say “no”, but she learned this would have no effect.

‘The prosecution’s allegation was that [the first victim] was asleep on more than one occasion when the defendant had penetrative vaginal sexual intercourse with her’, Mr Esprit said.

The girl described how the boy would tie her up with ropes, which she said ‘were like shoe laces’, which he already had in his bedroom.

‘Over the course of the relationship, the defendant encouraged [the first victim] to send him photos of her in an increasingly undressed state’, Mr Esprit said.

The girl also disclosed how the boy had tried to continue the abuse while they were at school together, often in full view of other pupils.

‘In the canteen, she would be sat with friends and he would put his hand up her skirt or her top, he would touch her between her legs’, Mr Esprit explained. ‘She said he did it a lot even though there were people around, she would push him off, she always did.’

Mr Esprit told about the manipulative and abusive methods the boy would use to keep the girl in a relationship with him, stating ‘he regularly threatened to cut himself, kill himself or hurt her’.

He also put hot plates on her to burn her stomach, put his fingers down her throat to force her to be sick and gave her a razor blade so she could cut herself, the court heard.

‘His mum was around when she was screaming, telling him to stop, but his mum could not do anything’, Mr Esprit told the court.

‘When they broke up, he told [the first victim] he would kidnap and kill her, her family and friends’, the prosecutor added. ‘He spoke about killing her and keeping her body.’

Mr Esprit told the court: ’[The first victim] recalled an occasion when the defendant covered a flannel with a chemical of some kind and placed it over her mouth. She felt dizzy and sick and thinks she may have passed out.’

Police investigating the first set of allegations discovered the defendant had previously been in a relationship with another girl, when both of them were aged 13.

When they interviewed that second victim, she described how, around a month into the relationship, whenever she went to the boy’s home something sexual had happened.

‘She refused initially’, Mr Esprit explained. ‘The defendant would gent very angry, punching the bedroom walls and saying she did not love him. Because she wanted to please the defendant, she usually gave in and allowed it to happen.

The second victim told police they had sex ‘more times than she could remember’ and that she had been ‘strangled and choked’ by the boy.

Mr Esprit said the boy had also encouraged the 13-year-old girl to send him pictures in an underwear and a bikini, which he had screenshotted on his own phone.

When the boy was arrested in the summer of 2022, he gave a prepared statement where he denied raping the first victim and said: ‘I admit some of the messages I had sent her do come across as controlling. It is a symptom of my autism and way I communicate.’

Police seized the defendant’s phone and conducted an examination which found he had made internet searches for hardcore pornography.

The boy had also searched the internet for ‘how long can you get for rape?’, Mr Esprit told the court.

It comes after the UK was thrown into a panic about the misogynist and highly sexualised attitudes of young children following the release of Stephen Graham’s four-part Netflix drama Adolescence. Above, Owen Cooper earned praise for his chilling performance as Jamie

James Partridge, defending, said the boy had been diagnosed with ADHD, high-functioning autism, depression and anxiety.

‘His behaviour may not have been considered acceptable to others, the defendant may not have understood he did anything wrong’, Mr Partridge said.

Appearing in court in person, the first victim to come forward told Judge Alan Blake: ‘He took everything from me, took my first kiss, took my virginity, took my teenage years, took away my innocence.

‘He destroyed everything good about me’, the girl added, explaining she now does not feel safe around men.

The second victim to come forward also appeared in court and told the boy: ‘You broke me. I was 13, a child, you took a piece of me away from me. You never loved me, you just wanted someone who could live in your fantasy, someone you could control. I still do not know where that part of me went.’

Both victims told how they had never consented to the sexual acts which took place and spoke of their disappointment that the boy had admitted to 20 offences of sexual activity with a child and two offences of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

The boy had initially admitted the offences on the basis that the victims had consented to all the behaviour, which the prosecution did not accept.

 Prosecutors had planned to bring the boy to trial and to pursue an allegation of rape against him, but on the day of his trial in February this year, the boy withdrew his basis of plea and accepted the victims did not consent.

Sexual activity between under 16-year-olds is often charged as sexual activity with a child under 16, rather than rape. 

Though the age of consent is 16 in England and Wales, the boy could have defended a rape charge on the basis that, though the victims did not in-fact consent, he reasonably believed they had consented, a defence which is not available to a charge of sexual activity with a child under 16.

Judge Alan Blake, sentencing on Friday, told the defendant: ‘The victims did not have the maturity or understanding at the age they were to know how to deal with your sexual desires. They went along with what you wanted.

‘Whatever you may have thought at the time, neither victim was able to make and express an informed choice about what they did and did not want to do. It is important for them and for you to hear that they bear no blame for your offending.’

The judge said he was concerned to hear the boy had a ‘continued interest’ in BDSM pornography, which he warned was dangerous for young people.

‘Your attitudes towards sex was distorted and wrong’, the judge told the defendant, ‘no doubt influenced by the extreme BDSM pornography you were searching for and watching, apparently having been introduced to it at the age of 12.

‘That plainly influenced your attitudes and desires’, the judge added, pointing to the behaviour involving butt plugs, bondage and pressure on the necks of the victims.

‘That behaviour shows how corrosive and destructive it is for someone as young as you were to be exposed to that material. It affects you but then that distorted view affects your sexual partners.’

But Judge Blake explained that primarily due to the age the defendant had been at the time he committed the offences but also because of his psychological issues, he would not send the boy to prison.

The boy was sentenced to a two-year community order, with a requirement to complete a 26-day accredited course to address his distorted sexual attitudes, as well as 15 rehabilitation activity requirement days and 150 hours unpaid work. He was also slapped with a five-year restraining order.

Judge Blake concluded by telling the victims: ‘No sentence can turn the clock back and undo what you have experienced.’

Referring to the worries they expressed in their victim impact statements, he added: ‘While no doubt damaged, the good in both of you is inherent and will survive and cannot be destroyed.’

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