The schoolboy was sentenced to a three-year youth rehabilitation order at Mold crown court (Picture: PA)

A schoolboy neglected by his mother played out his ‘sexual fantasies’ by raping a girl under eight after he became addicted to extreme pornography, a court heard.

The youngster was just ten when he began his two years of abuse after being allowed to spend hours watching sex films online, jurors were told.

Judge Niclas Parry told the now 13-year-old, who first started watching porn at the age of nine, that if he had been an adult he would be a facing a ten-year sentence after he admitted rape, sexual assault and attempted rape.

However, taking into account the seven years of neglect and the physical abuse meted out to him by her mother’s partner, the judge sentenced the defendant to a three-year youth rehabilitation order.




‘You were brought up in a home that was clearly without sexual boundaries,’ Judge Parry said at Mold crown court in North Wales.

‘In fact what you were doing was using her to play out fantasies that you had been watching on the internet, images of extreme pornography.’

Judge Parry also handed the boy, from the Llandudno area, a residency order so that he would remain in the development centre to which he has been moved.

He also admitted the victim would need a huge amount of support and that although some progress was being made, it may take years before she fully realises that her abuse was not normal.