Record details
Terence Walters, from Billingham, bought the young girl gifts including vapes as well as money after sexually assaulting her with a massage device.
The 53-year-old used the device on her leg and back despite multiple pleas for him to stop during the assault last year.
He was also found to have asked the girl about her underwear and showed a nude photo of his former partner, the court heard.
After the child bravely reported the abuse to police, Walters was arrested, and evidence was gathered by detectives that led to him being charged.
Following a trial at Teesside Crown Court in October 2024, Walter was found guilty by a jury.
On Tuesday 17 December Walters returned to Teesside Crown Court to be sentenced by Judge Jonathan Carroll. He was told he will serve 13 years in prison for three counts of sexual assault by penetration, non-penetrative sexual assault with a child and sexual communication with a child.
Walters will also be on the sex offenders register and be subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) indefinitely.
