A woman was jailed after she groomed a girl and forced her to engage in lesbian sex despite knowing that the victim likes men and not women.
Katrina Holmes of Wales, England, was just 7-years-old when she met Deborah Evans, who babysat her.
The two became close and the girl’s family trusted her to be alone with their daughter.
The Cardiff Crown Court heard that Evans groomed the child. One day, when the girl was 15-years-old, Evens, 27, invited her for a sleepover.
During the night, Evans “forced the child to act out depraved sexual fantasies,” according to court documents. Over the next 5 months, Evans sexually assaulted the girl including in her own home.
Evans told the girl that she “was gay and that she will always be gay” after the girl said that she was only interested in boys.
Holmes told the court that she blamed herself, and therefore, she did not tell anyone about the abuse. Instead, she wrote about the abuse in a diary.
12 years later, as a grown woman, Holmes finally had the courage to come forward and Evans was arrested.
The teen’s diary was used in court to help convict Evans, now 46.
“It took me 12 years to speak because I blamed myself for so many years. But when I got to 27 myself. I realized what she had done was very wrong.
“It has taken so much courage and strength to speak out but I am no longer that frightened teenager. I have made Deborah Evans accountable for what she did to me.
“I looked up to this woman and she abused that trust in the most horrific way. It was unforgivable,” the victim said.
Evans was convicted of 11 counts of indecent assault. She was sentenced to 7 years in prison.
Evans was also ordered to register as a sex offender for life.
Read more: WalesOnline
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