Locations
Worksop, Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, S8
Description
Updates:
- December 2017: Has now been released
- July 2017: Now using the name ‘Nicola Cherrett’ – Currently held at HMP Foton Hall.
One teenage boy told of his three-year ordeal at the hands of a predator named Nicola Ward.
The lad, now 16, said: “She was funny and intelligent. She used all these posh words and came across as really well spoken.
“But she’d switch after she had a drink or took drugs. She became a different person.”
The school leaver said the abuse began when he was 12. Ward plied him with cocaine and then performed a sex act.
It was the start of a campaign in which she would corner the lad and coerce him into sex acts.
Ward, 34, of Worksop, Notts, was arrested last April after the lad’s father became suspicious.
She was jailed for eight years by Nottingham Crown Court after admitting sexual activity with a child and supplying drugs.
Ward, jailed in January, was sent to Peterborough Prison — making her one of an estimated 100 female child abusers behind bars.
She was moved to a low-security psychiatric unit in July.
Her victim is still having therapy to help him come to terms with the attacks.
He said: “I never thought a woman was capable of something like this.
“It’s ruined my trust in everyone. It’s made me fearful of women.
“But she’s in the gutter where she belongs and I won’t let her ruin my life.”
- Ward has a SOPO indefinitely with two restrictions
- Not to live in a family with a child under 18 No unsupervised contact with a child under 16
- Is banned from Nottinghamshire by way of a court order obtained September 2016
- Banned from Nottinghamshire by way of MAPPA