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A Somerset teenager who who was found guilty of molesting a young girl told her mum that he was scratching a pimple on his back, Bristol Crown Court heard.

Bailey Stanley, 19, of Bramley Wood Road in Weston-super-Mare, will serve two years and three months in youth custody after being convicted of sexual assault of a child by penetration.

The court heard he had sat next to the child on a sofa.

The child told her mum that Stanley put his hand inside her underwear and touched her inappropriately.

But when challenged, he said: "I was scratching a pimple on my back and I may have touched her accidentally."

On the day of his trial, Stanley pleaded guilty to making and possessing 10,000 indecent images of children.

The Recorder Ms Rosaleen Collins told the court yesterday (March 12) she recognized Stanley would be more vulnerable than most people in detention, but he had not cooperated in any "meaningful way" with a probation report or showed remorse.

She said: "I take no joy from sending you to a custodial sentence.

"I have no doubt you will find it difficult. I have been as lenient as I can."

Stanley was made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, designed to stop him re-offending, for ten years.

He was also told to register as a sex offender for ten years.

His computer equipment was also forfeited.

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