[dware]

I’d be in prison were I the parent of the victim, and smiling in my mugshot.

[TexasGator]

“I’d be in prison were I the parent of the victim, and smiling in my mugshot.”

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The first attack came when a girl had caught a bus to the town on a Tuesday afternoon, in November 2024, after arranging to meet the boy after he had messaged her a few days previously on social media platform Snapchat.

They had not met in person until that day.

After spending time together in the town, the boy had persuaded her to accompany him to a quieter area in an underpass by the River Avon where they had some consensual sexual activity.