New Zealand: Man charged for kissing a 15-year-old girl In a hotel room he booked for them
A court heard that a man left an underage girl traumatized after kissing her in a hotel room he had booked for sex.
Dad-of-one Samuel Richardson, aged 30, befriended the 15-year-old before their secret meeting.
They kissed with their tops off before he stopped after a message from the girl's concerned grandmother, Plymouth Crown Court heard.
In a statement read to the court, the teenager told police that she had struggled to sleep, skipped school, and had even got ready to run away from home.
She said: "Everything that happened over that three weeks has been replaying over and over in my head.
"There has not been a single day when I have not been affected by the incident. At one stage, I thought he was in my head, seeing and hearing everything I was doing."
A judge said he thought "long and hard" about sending Richardson to prison before suspending his sentence.
Judge William Mousley said that the defendant had formed an "inappropriate friendship" with the girl over about three weeks. But he said that the intention for an intimate relationship was not there from the start.
The judge said the girl's family knew about their meetings, though not the hotel's booking.
But he added that the booking of the single hotel room for them to spend the night together was the "clearest indication" of what his intentions had become.
Judge Mousley said: "I make it clear that she was not to blame for what happened in the hotel room that night."
Richardson, of Church Street, Landrake near Saltash, was handed a 15-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, with a sex offender treatment program.
He must do 200 hours of unpaid work and 30 days of probation's Rehabilitation Activity Requirement.
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