Deleah Poulton has been jailed for 16 months (Picture: Andrew Price/View Finder Pictures)

A babysitter has been jailed after she admitted sexual activity with a child.

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Deleah Poulton, 19, had intercourse and oral sex around 70 times with the boy when he was 13 and 14 while she was supposed to be looking after him.

Poulton struck over a period of 15 months when she was 17 and 18, at a house in Rhyl, North Wales, and didn’t use protection.

Mold Crown Court heard that she told police she believed she was in love with the boy and that the feelings were mutual despite the age gap.


She has now been given a 16-month sentence in a young offenders’ institute.



Judge Nicolas Parry said told her that there is often an assumption that offences of this nature are not as serious when the defendant was female and the victim was male.

But he added: ‘In fact, the law quite properly draws no such distinction.’

The court was told that she would buy alcohol for herself and the boy, but the judge added that it was not used as an inducement.

She abused the trust the family had put in her to look after the boy and his siblings, Judge Parry added.

Her personal gratification came above any thought for the welfare of the young boy involved, he said.

Prosecutor Michael Whitty said the boy, who is now 15, told his mother last year that they had had intercourse at the family home, Poulton’s home and outside.

There were also text messages of a sexual nature on his phone.

She was ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.