Boy who stabbed 2 schoolgirls and sexually assaulted 4 others after porn obsession is locked up

A TEENAGE boy who stabbed two girls and sexually assaulted four others after a pornography obsession was jailed today.

The random attacks – the first of which when the boy was 14 – took placein Croydon, South London.

The 16-year-old attacker, from Thornton Heath, who can't be named for legal reasons, admitted charges including two counts of GBH and four counts of sexual assault.

Caging him for a minimum of four-and-a-half years, a judge told him that he represents a "very high risk of reoffending" as he sentenced him to extended detention of seven and a half years.

Detectives linked four similar incidents last Autumn with previous attacks in November, 2019.

In one attack, just before 9am on November 4 last year, a schoolgirl was attacked from behind and stabbed in the leg.

SEX ATTACKER CAGED

Two days later, at around 8.20am, a 15-year-old girl was stabbed in the arm from behind just a 10-minute walk away.

Both girls were treated at the scene by paramedics before being taken to the hospital where their conditions were deemed not life-threatening.

In an attack, on September 2 last year, a mum was punched in the face when her 13-year-old daughter was sexually assaulted in front of her as the fiend to remove the girl's underwear.

Claire Harden-Frost, prosecuting, told Croydon Crown Court the boy would "roam the streets of Thornton Heath looking for young girls" before school.

If he found one to his liking he would sexually assault them. In later offences, he would carry a knife and used it to carry out one of the sexual offences

She said: "If he found one to his liking he would sexually assault them. In later offences, he would carry a knife and used it to carry out one of the sexual offences.

"In counts eight and nine he simply stabbed his victims.

"These victims were all strangers. They didn't know [him] and had not caused him any harm.

"Alarmingly, the fact they were walking with friends or even a parent did not deter [him]. He simply would attack them."

'EXTREME PORNOGRAPHY'

The court was told the boy "took advantage of the local area and simply disappeared".

Cathy Ryan, in mitigation, said a psychiatric report didn't find any condition that predisposed the teen to commit these attacks.

She said: "There is a broad consensus that [this defendant] committed these attacks after a combination of social isolation, victimisation and extreme pornography.

"Isolating [the defendant] from his peers forced him increasingly into his own company and the internet."

She added: "Exposure to the utterly dehumanising effects of pornography at the age of 11 led to his complete failure to recognise female counterparts as human beings like himself."

Judge Nicholas Ainley passed concurrent sentences to run together for the "series of serious and dangerous assaults".

Judge Ainley said: "It is absolutely plain in the view of the psychiatrist that against of a background of isolation and certainly some bullying was an obsessive interest in pornography and dangerously wanted to live out what he saw in pornographic videos.

"He felt an urge in every case to do what he did and did not resist.

"What may have propelled him was that he was getting away with it, and it heightened the excitement.

"He represents a very high risk of reoffending and there is a high risk of his sexual behaviour."

The boy would be sent to a detention centre for a minimum of four and a half years and, if eligible for parole, will be on license for a further three years.

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