This is one of the
saddest stories I've seen in a long ong time. I'll only say parents should be extremely careful who they leave their children with. I know kids can't be watched 24/7
but as much as possible, parents shouldn't take their eyes off them. Where possible, surveillance cameras should be installed in
homes especially when they're left with baby sitters.
Please take your time to read up the story and leave a comment. It's worth every word.
THE SAD STORY:
The mother of a
four-year-old girl raped by a teenage babysitter has revealed the pain that has
haunted her since the horrific ordeal.
The woman said
there are days when she 'can't stop crying' after discovering her daughter had
been assaulted by the 14-year-old son of a family friend.
And the father is
tormented by feelings of guilt for allowing the toddler to be left in the
clutches of the disturbed babysitter.
Speaking publicly
for the first time since the attacker walked free from court, the couple
blasted the decision not to impose a custodial sentence - and feared their
daughter could bump into her rapist any day.
Instead, the judge
imposed a three-year community order after blaming ‘the world and society’ for
his exposure to porn.
'Our daughter was
just four years old and so small for her age, she was still wearing age two to
three clothing. He was a lot bigger than her,' the distressed mother told the
Sun.
She said that when
her daughter - who cannot be identified for legal reasons - told her what had
happened she 'was sick' then fell to the floor crying.
The teenager used
the toddler's favourite Hello Kitty apron to blindfold her while he carried out
the attack - promising her chocolate if she played his 'game'.
The mother said the
first chilling sign that something 'terrible' had happened was when she
returned home and noticed the apron wasn't hanging in its usual place, but
was scrunched up on the floor.
Still numb from
what happened, she added: 'There have been days where I just can’t stop
bursting into tears and I feel sick all the time. I can’t cope anymore.'
Her daughter, who
is now five, knows 'something horrible' happened but doesn't understand what.
When the parents returned home nothing seemed out of the ordinary and they paid the babysitter £10 and he left
It was
only when the father was getting his daughter ready for bed that she told him
what happened.
He
stormed over to the boy's home, just a few hundred yards down the road, and
told his mother what the girl had said.
Together
they confronted the teenager who denied the girl's claims - saying that she had
walked in on him in the bathroom and had seen him exposed.
But when the concerned father returned home and spoke to his daughter once more
it became apparent that the boy was lying and the police were called.
The
teenager admitted the offence to officers the following day - telling them that
he had lost his mind because 'hormones' had taken over.
The
teenager - who still lives a few hundred yards from the victim - wore his
school uniform in the dock at Cambridge Crown Court on Monday as Judge Gareth
Hawkesworth told him he would have received a six-and-a-half year jail term if
he had been an adult
Judge
Hawkesworth said: ‘You have not shown any particular sexual interest in
children. I’m satisfied it was impulsive and I believe you have become
sexualised by your exposure to and the corruption of pornography.
‘Your
exposure at such a young age has ended in tragedy. It was the fault of the
world and society.’
The boy
told police who were interviewing that he had regularly accessed porn on the
internet at his parents’ home without their knowledge. In court he admitted
raping a girl under 13.
The
mother of the victim says the judge justified the lenient sentence by making a
'cheap point' to use pornography as an excuse for what happened.
Judge Gareth Hawkesworth |
The
sentence 'just isn't enough' as it sends the 'wrong message' about rape and
could prevent other victims from coming forward, she added.
Source: Mailonline:
I am an advocate of parental surveillance in every form even when yiu have kept your child in the hands of close relatives. I dont trust anybody. I have a baby girl of 6yrs and i cannot afford to have anyone assault her in whatever form. For her safety i can turn kamikaze or boko haram. Parents beware
ReplyDeletenice :( i cant believe he just got to walk away
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