Mary-Ellen Mooney was 18 at the time of the incidents (Picture: INS)

A babysitter who forced a 13-year-old boy to perform sex acts on her has been spared jail.

Mary-Ellen Mooney, who was 18 at the time, rubbed the boy’s thigh and kissed him, then took his hand and put it down her pants. She had the boy touch her on three separate occasions and sent him Facebook messages in which she called him ‘babe’ and said she had ‘a real soft spot’ for him.

The babysitter, now 19, was arrested and charged with two offences after the 13-year-old told a friend what had happened. She initially denied the charges before admitting her guilt.



She was today handed a suspended jail sentence at Amersham Crown Court for the 10-11 January offences and given a night-time curfew.


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The court heard that Mooney sent the victim sexually explicit messages, one of which told him to ‘take control and show your dominant side.’

‘It isn’t about size, it’s the way you use it,’ she told him.

‘There’s no point having a big dick if you don’t know how to use it.’

Sophie Murray, defending, said Mooney had a difficult upbringing and was the carer for her mother, an alcoholic, from an early age.

Judge Karen Holt said she was ‘just about persuaded I don’t need to send you to prison today.’

Mooney, from Milton Keynes, also made the subject of a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and has been placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for 10 years.