Nottingham Crown Court
A FACEBOOK user sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl who he had contacted through the social networking site.
Tuseef Mahmood, 24, pretended to be just 17 when he set up a Facebook page under another name.
He claimed he was a local sixth-former, and sexually groomed the child – using Facebook and text messages – before meeting her twice at The Forest recreation ground.
He sexually assaulted her between November 21 and November 30 last year.
Mahmood, of Burns Street, the Arboretum, had previously pleaded guilty to meeting a child, following sexual grooming, between November 21 and November 30 last year; and intimidation between May 21 and May 26 this year.
A previous hearing heard he had messaged her on Facebook, urging her to drop the charges.
Yesterday, he was due to go on trial at Nottingham Crown Court accused of raping the girl, who he had not known before contacting her on Facebook. He had denied the rape charge.
The trial was abandoned when the prosecution accepted a plea to an alternative charge of sexual assault between November 21 and November 30. His plea to the alternative charge was considered by the Crown Prosecution Service and the police officer in the case, the court heard.
Dawn Pritchard, prosecuting, said: "The officer had extensive meetings with the complainant and mother, and it is on that basis that the Crown is content to accept the plea."
The court heard the child's mother had said she did not want her daughter to give evidence in court.
Mahmood, who was 23 at the time of the offences, has no previous convictions but has a caution on his record.
Recorder John Pini QC ordered a pre-sentence report to be prepared. Mahmood will remain in custody to be sentenced on November 28.
The judge said: "You have pleaded guilty now to a further sexual allegation; a serious one in addition to the serious one you have already pleaded guilty to."
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