Sheffield Letter: A refugee from the Central African Republic meets the British legal system after assaulting teenage girls
Following a trial, he had been convicted of three counts of sexual assault and one of harassment. There were four victims, all adolescent girls aged between 13 and 16. The judge reminded the court they were entitled to lifelong anonymity.
Another teenage victim had been walking through a Yorkshire town on her way back to her grandmother’s house when Mohammed approached her. Uninvited, he walked alongside her. She humoured him in conversation but he soon turned “weird”. He asked if she had a boyfriend. He said he would love to have her as his girlfriend. He followed her in and out of a shop. They kept walking.
A fourth victim had been sitting on a park bench near her school. He sat down beside her and told her he needed help. He said he was from Africa and had no friends or family here. He said he was lonely and wanted her to be his girlfriend. He put his phone in her lap and made her put her number in. Frightened, she did as she was told. He said he loved her. As she stood up to get away, she noticed his trousers were undone. For days, he repeatedly called and texted her.
The defence barrister handed in a psychiatrist’s report that found Mohammed was not mentally unwell but that he was “culturally incongruent”.He said any man who had been in Britain for five years must have known that he is not allowed to grope the breasts of teenage girls he had just met.
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