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A 13-year-old boy has admitted raping a 14-year-old girl and sexually assaulting five other girls.
The victim was dragged into an alleyway and raped by the youth as she walked home from a party when she was 14, in October last year.
The boy, who also cannot be identified, was quickly arrested as the girl recognised him and knew where he lived in Essex.
He admitted her rape and sex assaults on five other girls when he first appeared before Chelmsford magistrates on January 10.
But he was bailed to return to his family home, despite objections from police and prosecutors, as he apparently had no other relatives he could move in with outside the area.
His victim has suffered panic attacks, due in part to repeatedly seeing him around in her neighbourhood.
Her heightened anxiety has also led to her falling behind with her schoolwork.
She had hoped to get some respite if he was given a period of detention, but her hopes were dashed when he received a three year Youth Rehabilitation Order at Chelmsford Crown Court last Thursday.
The boy also ordered to wear a tag, putting him under a night time curfew at his family home for six months.
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, the mother of the girl said, “It is atrocious that he has been able to carry on living so close to our house.
“Our daughter has seen him a number of times since he raped her. It triggers her anxiety having him so nearby.
“She has already had to change the route she walks to school to avoid passing his house – but she never knows when she is going to see him again.
“He and his parents are in rented accommodation and they could easily leave. The police even suggested to them that they did, but they will not move.”
The mother said that her daughter was attacked as she walked home from a party without her knowledge.
She said, “We knew where the party was, and she had told us that friends were bringing her home.
“But they had fibbed, and a group of about six of them were walking back across a park, and this boy started walking with them.
“They didn’t know him, but they knew of him because he lived nearby, and he had not been to the party.
“Most of the girls drifted off until it was just my daughter and her friend.
“Then her friend got picked up by her stepfather, and my daughter was left to walk just a short distance home at around midnight.
“She thought this boy had gone, but all of a sudden he grabbed her around the neck and dragged her into an alleyway where he raped her.
“She says she told him to stop, but he didn’t. Then he let her go ,and she came home, and went straight to her room.
“I heard her crying, and I asked what the matter was, but she wouldn’t tell me.
“I assumed she might have had an argument with her friend. Then the next day, on the Sunday, she spent almost the whole day in her room, and only came down for a bit of food.
“She was very quiet on the Monday morning and went to school, but half an hour later I got a call from a teacher who said there had been an incident.
‘I told them to send my daughter home, and when she came back she told me she had been raped.
“It turned out that this boy had sexually assaulted five other girls earlier on the same evening. One of the girls at my daughter’s school had reported it.
“My daughter had been texting one or two of them, and the staff came and got her.
“I phoned the police straight away, and called my husband, and he came home from work.
“The police came and took the clothes my daughter had been wearing. Then the next day, she was taken to a specialist centre where she was had intimate swabs taken, and gave a statement.
“She was relieved that she had told us, but she was a shell of the child that she was, and she still is.
“She used to be very outgoing, but she is still so much more quieter than she was, and she is nothing like her old self.”
The mother said that the boy was arrested soon afterwards, and her daughter took part in an on-screen identity parade to pick him out.
She admitted being relieved when he later admitted the rape of her daughter and sex assaults on five other girls.
But she added, “I was fuming when the police said that he had been allowed to return home as part of his bail conditions.”
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