Back in 2022, Ellen Cadman-Smith, a 24-year-old paedophile from the Isle of Wight, sent 3,000 texts to a 15-year-old over a span of two months, including a message in which she stated, “I think I’m falling for you.”
Ms. Ellen Cadman-Smith, a mother of one, said to the kid, “I desire you intensely,” stating that he was driving her “insane” and that she was “constantly preoccupied with thoughts of him.”
She informed him that she was “half-naked” in one of her messages, stating, “I cannot have you, and you are aware of the reason,” before arranging to meet him in her vehicle.
This week, when approached by the Sun outside her residence on the Isle of Wight, Ms. Cadman-Smith did not apologise.
She silently vanished into the house when enquired whether she want to apologies.
Her fiancé stated that “an apology will never be forthcoming.”
The conduct of Ms. Ellen Cadman-Smith was revealed solely when the boy’s mother found the messages from a person identified simply as ‘E’.
Ms. Ellen Cadman-Smith has ‘severe anxiety’ and further complications, rendering her mentally unable to stand trial. [ONLY IN THE ISSLE OF WIGHT]
Instead, her behaviour was adjudicated on a ‘trial of issue’ – a rare process where the jury simply decide whether the act took place, without assigning criminal blame on the person who did it.
In this case, it only took the jury three minutes to decide that Ms Cadman-Smith had done the deed.
The court heard how Ms Ellen Cadman-Smith was a mentor at Cowes Enterprise College – formerly known as Cowes High School – on the Isle of Wight, where she supported children with “behavioural, mental health and learning difficulties”.
Jurors were told she and the boy developed a connection after she began working with him.
Prosecutor Mary Aspinall-Miles said: “[The boy] started accessing her services. They were covering up their behaviour at school… they thought they were in some kind of relationship.
“She told the boy she ‘had feelings’ for him but that she couldn’t ‘have him.'”
At first, Ms Ellen Cadman-Smith and the boy only exchanged “emotional and supportive messages”.
But she later started telling him that she was “thinking about him non-stop, and at one point told him: “I can’t have you and you know why”.
She added: “OMG, I’m falling for you and thinking about things I probably shouldn’t,” sharing a winking emoji.
Ms Ellen Cadman-Smith, who had a boyfriend at the time, told him: “I want you so badly… the things I could do to you right now are driving me insane.” She added that she was “saving everything” for him.
They would also meet up for drives in her car and go to Burger King together.
Ms Ellen Cadman-Smith later broke up with her boyfriend and suggested that she and the boy go away to spend a night in a hotel.
At one point she messaged him: “I don’t know what I did differently [last night] but I’ve got a bit of a sore throat today though.”
In a separate text, she also told the boy she was half-naked and said he was “definitely a bum man”.
No evidence was given in her defence during the hearing.
Ms Ellen Cadman-Smith engaged in sexual communication with a child, the jury found. The judge imposed a five-year sexual harm prevention order on her.
Under the terms of the order, she must make all her devices available for inspection, they must all have the ability to retain search history and she has been told she must not delete her search history. She had to hand over her phone, and it was destroyed.
Ms Ellen Cadman-Smith must also not contact a child under the age of 16 using social media, other than her immediate family members.
Giving her an absolute discharge, the judge said: “It is clear that sexual activity did take place between them. She was in a position of responsibility… [It was] a breach of trust.”
“She plainly knew it was wrong to do what she was doing. It was a huge error.”
Ellen Cadman-Smith – who has a one-year-old child – will also be placed on the sex offenders register for five years as well as being barred from working with children. She was also ordered to forfeit her mobile phone which will be destroyed.
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