A paedophile who molested an 11-year-old girl escaped jail yesterday when a judge ruled the victim had “welcomed” his advances. I kid you not.
British Judge Robert Atherton triggered outrage when he told Manchester Crown Court the child had invited Jon Dixon’s attack as she had a “sexual awareness” that would make someone twice her age blush.
The judge rejected an assessment by the probation service that Dixon, 20, posed a “high risk of serious harm to children”.
The court heard that the pair met in an internet chatroom in February last year where the girl was posing as a 20-year-old.
Dixon and his victim exchanged 900 text graphic messages over a two-week period before the girl told Dixon she was actually aged 12 – although her real age was 11.
He continued to pursue her with more graphic sexual text messages, emails and a request for pornographic photos before they met.
‘It was clear the defendant’s attitude and intentions towards her had not changed despite her saying she was only 12,’ said the Prosecutor.
On March 15 last year Dixon met the girl during her school lunch break and sexually assaulted her. Two days later they met again when Dixon tried unsuccesfully to rape her in an alleyway.
Now, the Judge is basically saying the 11 year old girl brought it on herself, and that it was her own fault she was sexually assaulted. Oh, and the pedophile is free to go out there and do it again. In fact, he practically has a written invitation with his get-out-of-jail-free pass that he just handed in and which was so readily accepted.
Unbe-frickin-lievable.
