Back in 2019, a 14-year-old girl residing in a care home was raped by Michael David Jones, the Gaerwen Paedophile, from Anglesey, a 30-year-old male, known as Spike, whom she had encountered on Facebook, a judge was informed on Monday.
Michael David Jones, aged 32, abducted the vulnerable girl from her residence and transported her to Caernarfon, where he engaged in a sexual act with her in the rear of his vehicle.
Yesterday, Michael David Jones was sentenced to three years and four months in prison after admitting to engaging in sexual behaviour with a minor.
Judge Huw Rees told him at Caernarfon crown court: “You were the adult – she was the child.”
Giving an impact statement from behind a screen, the girl, now 16, claimed it had ruined her life and led to self-harming.
She said she’d been led to believe Michael David Jones loved her and they would get together.
“The sex was horrific,” she told the court. “My life has been destroyed, and I ask myself almost every day if I will ever be myself or be happy again.
She was on “re-programming therapy.”
The court heard it happened in November 2017, and when the girl’s iPhone was examined, it was shown she had a conversation with Michael David Jones and that it was made clear she was 14.
She had absconded after exchanging texts and putting on makeup. Care staff were not allowed to use physical restraint, and after she got into a Seat car, they set off in pursuit but lost her; however, the registration number was noted.
Police were told, and Michael David Jones was arrested at his Gaerwen home just after 11 pm that night. Police had seized the girl’s telephone.
She knew the defendant as Spike, and she’d said he’d spoken about fathering a child with her.
“She said she went with him because it was the only way she could get transport to Caernarfon,” according to John Philpotts, prosecuting.
The sex act happened near the police station, and Michael David Jones had dropped her off close to the justice centre.
The girl said he’d told her not to tell anyone and to delete messages on her phone and smash it into pieces.
Judge Rees criticised “the inexcusable delay” in the case caused by the police, Michael David Jones having been arrested and interviewed in November 2017 but not charged until May this year.
The case involved grooming and the exchange of sexual images.
Defence barrister Elen Owen said Jones, a hard-working plant operator with a young son, had lost his own relationship and home because of what had happened.
The girl had significant difficulties, and the best defence was his guilty plea.
Judge Rees told Michael David Jones: “There was a significant degree of planning over nine days, grooming and targeting of a vulnerable individual.”
Indefinite sexual harm and sex offenders’ orders were imposed.
So, whose child is Michael David Jones currently molesting? Who knows?
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