A TEENAGER who sexually abused a girl for 13 months has been spared jail despite twice breaching his sexual offences prevention order.
Daniel Frost, 18, of Wick Lane, Wickford, was convicted on five counts of sexual abuse of a child aged under 10 in the Maldon area in December 2010 and was told by the court that he had come "within a whisker of going inside for a considerable period".
The former Plume student was given a community rehabilitation order for three years and made subject to a sexual offences prevention order for five years, forbidding him from contacting children under 16 or being alone with a child under 16 without a parent or guardian present.
But Frost pleaded guilty to breaching the terms of the order at Chelmsford Crown Court after twice being alone with a boy and a girl around February this year.
On Thursday he was handed a six-month custodial sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work and pay costs of £250.
"He should have been locked up at the time," the original victim's mother who cannot be named for legal reasons told the Gazette.
"My daughter still goes through regular psychotherapy and he's never even been to prison."
