James Andrew, a predatory Thorne Paedophile sex offender has been labelled a “monster” after he victimised a young girl and committed “horrendous” acts that will inflict enduring trauma on her future.
James Andrew audaciously exploited the minor and subsequently attempted to attribute her awareness of sexual issues to TikTok, the internet, and her new mobile phone, as presented before Hull Crown Court. Andrew, 39, previously of Goole, refuted four charges, comprising three counts of sexual assault and one count of assault by penetration, in October 2019; nonetheless, a jury found him guilty following a trial.
Judge Mark Bury said that, on two occasions, James Andrew intimately touched and kissed the girl. James Andrew exposed himself and made her touch him before he intimately touched her again. “You told her as you were leaving that you were sorry and shouldn’t have done it,” said Judge Bury. “She said nothing about what you had done for a year. You denied doing anything wrong and you deflected blame.”
James Andrew had claimed that the girl gained any knowledge of sexual matters from TikTok and the internet after she had recently been given a mobile phone. “The fact that you were searching for other people to blame does you no credit,” said Judge Bury.
“It’s impossible to tell what harm this will do to her. What you did has long-lasting and very real implications. You told her to keep it a secret.”
A woman who knew the girl said that the offences had “broken” the girl and those who knew her. Andrew was a “monster” who had done “these horrendous things to her”. She added that she had not regarded Andrew as a monster at the time.
“You never truly know what someone is capable of until it’s too late,” she said. The girl now struggled to trust people.
“He has taken her innocence and that’s something you can never change,” said the woman. “It’s so hard to see the pain in her eyes every day.” The girl faced a daily “trauma” because of her ordeal.
Charlotte Baines, mitigating, said that there were two separate incidents of sexual behaviour towards the girl. Andrew had suffered problems while remanded in custody after being convicted of the offences.
James Andrew, recently of King Street, Thorne, near Doncaster, was jailed for six years and was given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order. He was ordered to register as a sex offender for life.
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