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Tenterton Avenue, Southampton, SO19
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A SOUTHAMPTON judge sympathised with a sexual abuse victim as he jailed her assailant for eight years.
Judge Peter Ralls QC said the girl struck him as bright and conscientious as she gave evidence against Nicholas Ray (Nick Ray) at the city crown court.
“I hope she recovers from this and is able to put the past behind her,” the judge said.
In two impact statements she told police how the abuse had affected her school work and friends had to tread warily around her because she could snap at them. She underwent counselling and suffered from panic attacks.
“What has happened has affected my education and has changed my future forever.”
Ray, 41, of Tenterton Avenue, Southampton, was convicted of four counts of having sexual activity with a child. He had pleaded not guilty.
The judge told him: “You took advantage of her in a cynical, appalling way.”
Ray also received a 15-year sex offenders prevention order and was placed on the sex offenders register for life.