A Wirksworth Paedophile teaching assistant, Kevin Doxey, distributed a ‘sex questionnaire’ to kids at his school, enquiring about their bra sizes and virginity status.
Kevin Doxey, formerly employed at Anthony Gell School in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, pleaded guilty to four charges of engaging in sexual communication with a minor at Derby Crown Court.
The 27-year-old, Kevin Doxey, transmitted an image of his genitals to one of the victims, accompanied by a winking emoji and the phrase, ‘I wish you were here.’
One of his victims informed her parents about his communications, prompting them to notify the police, who then confiscated his phone and discovered further texts directed at other young girls.
Laura Blackband, prosecuting, stated: ‘Kevin Doxey acquired the Snapchat information of four female pupils from the school and transmitted a succession of sexually explicit messages to each of them.’
‘The communication included a “sex questionnaire” which had a huge number of questions on them which we say could have led to possible sexual activity.
‘[Victim one] was 15 and she was very distressed by the questions. Kevin Doxey would ask her to pick a number and would get her to answer the questions.
‘She initially said no, but when she was on a sleepover, he texted her a [sexually explicit] photograph of himself with a winking emoji and three kisses.
‘She showed it to one of her friends and she said, “You need to tell someone about it.”‘
Three more victims were identified by police and said they were sent Kevin Doxey’s ‘sex questionnaire’.
Ms Blackband said a second victim told of how Kevin Doxey asked her ‘weird stuff’ over Snapchat, like asking if he could come and pick her up in his car and whether she was a virgin.
Another girl said she had been sent ‘inappropriate’ Instagram messages by Kevin Doxey.
Ms Blackband added: ‘In the questionnaire, he asked questions such as her bra size and “what do you wear in bed?”
‘She said she didn’t want to answer any of the questions but he replied, “You have to.”‘
The final victim ignored the questionnaire but the defendant was said to have ‘badgered’ her, asking: ‘Are you going to answer them?’
Kevin Doxey was initially suspended from the school and then left, and was said to have gone to work in a supermarket.
Two of his four victims, supported by their families, bravely read their victim impact statements to the court.
One said: ‘I was at school, a place where I felt safe and confident and all of that was taken away from me by a person in authority. I was a child, he was an adult, a teacher.’
Another victim revealed she tried to take her own life, adding: ‘Kevin was one of the main causes of this.
‘I recently saw him in Morrisons in Belper. I did not know he was working there, and it brought back memories, and I had to leave the store.’
One of the remaining two statements, which Ms Blackband read out, said: ‘I was only a child at the time; when I look back now, it was shocking.’
The other said: ‘School was meant to be a safe place but Kevin took that away from me.’
Kevin Doxey told the police the explicit photograph was sent to his girlfriend, but ‘the police looked at thousands of messages between them and not one was of a sexual nature’.
Mitigating, Dan Scothern said Kevin Doxey now works for a company called Clear Group.
He said: ‘In his words, “I understand what I have done and the huge amount of damage I have caused not just to the victims but to their families and my family.”
‘He says, “If I could go back and change everything I would.”‘
Jailing Kevin Doxey for two years on Friday, Recorder Graham Huston said: ‘I have to deal with you as a persistent sexual predator who used his position of trust to exploit their vulnerabilities.
‘You have messed with the minds of these young women and you knew what you were doing was unlawful because you had undergone full safeguarding training.
‘I consider the witness statements and the victim personal statements of each complainant very carefully. You caused real harm to each one of them.’
Kevin Doxey, of Cromford Road in Wirksworth, will also be on the sex offender register for 10 years and was given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order.
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