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A deaf woman who committed sex offences against a troubled underage girl has been sentenced to two years less a day in prison.

In March, a jury found Moreen Akumu, 36, guilty of sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, being a householder who permitted prohibited sexual activity and sexual assault in relation to the offences involving the 14-year-old girl, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban.

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The victim had come to Akumu’s East Vancouver apartment building to visit a friend. Akumu, who knew the girl and her mother, invited her up to her suite and once inside the suite, gave her alcohol.

The accused and the girl later went out and bought some marijuana and more alcoholic drinks, with the girl consuming enough to become very intoxicated.

Akumu led her into her bedroom and the two engaged in oral sex together. Akumu took a sexually explicit photo of the girl. Later, Akumu phoned a male friend named Mohammed Boima and invited him over to her apartment and Boima, who was also charged and convicted in the case, had sexual intercourse with the girl.