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A 36-year-old woman has appeared in court after being charged with abducting and sexually assaulting a Derby boy aged under 13.

Dressed in a black cardigan and black trousers, Debbie Yates pleaded not guilty to an 11-count indictment put to her by the clerk at Derby Crown Court.

She is alleged to have incited him to engage in sexual activity with her in December 2017.

Yates has been charged with one count of child abduction and 10 child sex allegations.

She denied all the charges.

Yates, who the hearing was told now lives with her father in Lime Tree Avenue, Midway, is alleged to have committed the offences during 2017.

They include her allegedly making the boy touch her private parts and her breasts while she allegedly touched his private parts, kissed him and hugged him sexually.

She denies a total of five counts of sexual assault of a child aged under 13, five counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and one count of child abduction.

(Image: Derby Telegraph)

Judge Smith adjourned the case to trial on June 8, 2020.

He was told it is likely to last four days.

Handing Yates bail, Judge Smith said: “Your case is being adjourned until next year which is quite a long way away, in fact it is nine months.

“You must keep in touch with your solicitors between now and that date and you must live at the address in Swadlincote you have given to the court.

“If you move addresses you need to let the court know.”