CHILD SEX OFFENDER COLE RILEY JUMPS INTO CANAL AFTER OFFENDING REVEALED
A child sex offender filled his pockets with stones and jumped in a canal when the details of his offending were made public.Nottingham Crown Court heard how Cole Riley had to be dragged out of the water in Long Eaton after his victim told others what he’d subjected her to.
The young teenager was lying in a bed when he “penetrated” her from behind after moments earlier whispering in her ear “don’t tell anyone, please don’t tell anyone”.
And the 21-year-old dad-of-one sobbed in the dock as he was told he was not going to prison immediately.
Handing him a two-year jail term, suspended for two years, Judge Julie Warburton said: “I have read her victim impact statement in which she speaks of the various ways this has affected her.
She was understandably very upset and paranoid as a result of the trauma.
She now has trust issues with everyone and had to move away from the area to get away from this.
“She said: “I was paranoid and deeply suspicious of everyone.
I felt I could not trust anyone.
I was so erratic.
I would lose it, smashing things up, shouting and screaming.
I developed fear and anxiety whenever a man was standing behind me.” Laura Pitman, mitigating, said her client was only 18 at the time of the offence and had pleaded guilty to the charge he faced.
She said there had been no further offending since.
The barrister said: “He is deeply ashamed of the way he conducted himself.
He does not know what caused him to behave in that disgraceful way towards that young girl but all he can only put it down to was his excessive consumption of alcohol and class A drugs.
He knows her and her family are in court and he wants me to say he is deeply sorry for what he did to her.
His guilty plea meant that she did not have to come to court and relive what happened on that night.
He has stopped drinking and taking drugs.
When asked why he jumped into the canal in an apparent suicide, [it] was that he felt so guilty about his actions.
He was at college doing a plumbing course but because of these offences and where he is likely to end up he dropped out.
As part of the suspended sentence order, the judge ordered the defendant to attend 20 rehabilitation sessions and to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work.
She also placed him on the sex offender register for 10 years and handed him a 10-year sexual harm prevention order.
