Teenager, 17, sexually abused his four-year-old sister while babysitting after watching online pornography

A teenage boy who sexually abused his little sister while babysitting had been watching online porn, a court has heard.
The 17-year-old repeatedly seriously abused the four-year-old child until the victim eventually told their mother what he had been doing.
She reported her son to the police and when interviewed the boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, admitted his behaviour had been 'disgusting and loathsome'.

Sentencing the youth, who is now 18, to three and a half years detention Judge Mark Brown described him as an intelligent young man who had known what he was doing was wrong.
He said: 'I am told you had been watching pornographic films.
'It is clear from what you said to police that you knew you had abused your sister and you appreciated that what you had done to her was not only disgusting but also loathsome but despite that knowledge you carried on and continued to treat her in that way.'

He said that the youth had treated her in a 'most appalling and dreadful fashion' because he had been sexually aroused.
The defendant had pleaded guilty to attempted rape and five offences of sexual assault.
Gerald Baxter, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court today that the offences took place over a four month period last year and the offences were specimen charges.

The court heard the teenager had been watching pornographic films (file picture posed by model)

Judge Brown said that fortunately the victim did not seem to have been adversely affected by the abuse and had 'simply shrugged it off and was getting on with her life'.
He said that the boy, who had been bullied at school, largely because of his weight, was socially isolated.
Following the death of his father he had become even less outgoing and when he was 16 was convicted of indecent exposure.
The judge said he accepted he was genuinely remorseful and his mother and family are continuing to support him.
He ordered him to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life, disqualified him from working with children and imposed an indefinite Sexual Offences Prevention Order preventing unsupervised contact with children.
Julian Linskill, defending, said that there had been an element of sexual experimentation involved in the offences.
He urged the judge not to send the youth to custody and instead put him on a sex offender rehabilitation course.

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