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The sentence of a babysitter who had sex with a schoolboy is being reviewed by the Attorney General.

Jade Hatt, 21, walked free from court despite having full intercourse with an 11-year-old boy she was looking after.

Her victim's mum slammed the six-month suspended sentence , and now the Attorney General will look into the case.

His office must decide whether to send the matter to the Court of Appeal by October 30.

A spokesman said: "There have been a number of complaints about this sentence from members of the public.

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"We now have a strict 28 day target.

"By October 30, the attorney general or the solicitor will have gone through it and decided if it is worth going to appeal court."

A total of 48 people have complained, although it only takes one to trigger a review by the attorney general.

Jade Hatt escaped jail after the boy's dad said his son saw the experience as a 'notch on his son's belt'.

The court heard the boy was mature for his age and the boy's father described him as "sex mad" and "fully up for the experience".

Today the boy's disgusted mother - who is estranged from the father - criticised the judge and vowed to appeal the "lenient" sentence.

The mum, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said she felt utterly violated and blamed her ex for helping their son's abuser avoid a prison sentence.

She said: "He is not sex mad. He is 11 years old. Of course he is interested in girls but that is how it is in the playground.

"It is girls his own age.

"This should be looked at the same as if this was a 21-year-old man having sex with a little girl.

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"It is no different in my eyes, and she got away with it way too lightly.

"He is just a normal boy. He would rather be playing his computer games."

Children's charities the NSPCC and Kidscape spoke out against the sentence and now the victim's mother is planning to appeal the decision.

She added: "I want to try to get this pushed back into court. I think she should have gone to prison and there's no two ways about that.

"I have nothing to do with his dad any more; he helped her get off lightly.

"I was thinking she must go to prison but the comments made by his dad helped her get away with it."

She said Judge Tim Mousley QC should never have accepted Hatt's immaturity as mitigation.

"If I had been there I would have told the judge that outcome was wrong, and it is disgusting that a female is being treated differently to a male," she said.

"I feel violated myself because this is my baby boy.

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"It is just lucky for her I can't take the law into my own hands, and I won't.

"I have been left disgusted with his dad and the justice system.

"Jade is only a few years younger than me, and just because someone is immature for their age does not make it okay."

Hatt, of Swindon, Wiltshire, was given a six-month jail term suspended for two years with supervision and told to register as a sex offender for seven years.

Judge Mousley also imposed a sexual harm prevention order banning her from having unsupervised contact with young boys for two years.

