A pervert whose persistent abuse left his victim fearful of men has been jailed for almost a decade.
Ian Vincent targeted the vulnerable girl when she was just eight years old and his depraved assaults continued until she was 12.
On the final occasion he assaulted her, he tried to have sex with her and stopped only when he was disturbed. In a statement read out at Teesside Crown Court, the victim said, at the time, she presumed the abuse she was suffering was “normal”.
“It was when I got older that it really started to affect me,” she said.
“I now have a trust issue with men.
“I avoid situations where I am alone with men.
“I have been having nightmares recently, waking up and crying and crying and sweating. When I think about him I have the nightmares.”
She contacted police after seeing Vincent “out and about”, prosecutor Sue Jacobs told the court.
He did not admit to his crimes, which were carried out in Teesside, until the day of the trial, when he changed his plea to guilty.
Defending, Yvonne Taylor, told the court he had suffered issues in his own childhood but added this was “no excuse” for his offending.
“His father committed suicide and his best friend died and his way to deal with that was to go down the ragged way of alcohol and drugs,” she said.
Vincent, 47, of Cameron Road, Hartlepool, pleaded guilty to indecent assault and indecency with a child.
The Recorder of Middlesbrough, Simon Bourne-Arton QC, said the “dreadful offending” was “a gross breach of trust”.
“You offended against her repeatedly and consistently,” he added.
He jailed Vincent for nine years and three months and issued a Sexual Offences Prevention Order.
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