March 2004

A lesbian paedophile who posed as a teenage boy to seduce a 12-year-old girl has been jailed for two years.

Kelly Trueman indecently assaulted the young victim after befriending her on school playing fields in Ripley, Derbyshire. Jailing the woman at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court, Judge James Orrell described her behaviour as “predatory”.

He said Trueman’s offending during the summer of last year involved a “cruel deception” on the girl’s family and an “even crueller deception” on the victim.

Judge Orrell said: “(She) now has to wrestle with the problem that her first experience of sexual activity which she entered into was not with a teenage boy, as she thought, but with a 22-year-old woman.”

Now aged 23, Trueman, formerly of Mill Lane, Codnor, Derbyshire, had been convicted at an earlier trial of eight counts of indecent assault and was sentenced to two years on each charge to run concurrent.

Feb 2004

Lesbian convicted of girl’s assault

A lesbian paedophile who posed as a teenage boy to begin a relationship with a 12-year-old girl she had met on school playing fields was convicted of indecently assaulting the child.

Kelly Trueman, 23, reinvented herself as 16-year-old Jake and concocted a string of lies about her former life to befriend a group of youngsters in Ripley, Derbyshire.

Derby Crown Court heard that the young victim believed she had embarked on her first relationship when she met the supposed teenage boy last summer.

Jurors were told the pair regularly kissed and that Trueman later touched the girl’s breasts and put her hands down the child’s trousers.

Mark Hurd, prosecuting, said that Trueman, posing as Jake, persuaded the victim’s parents to allow her to sleep at their house, claiming her mother was dead and she had been made homeless by her father.

The court heard that the girl suffered a further assault in her family home, when Trueman pulled down her trousers to engage in a sex act.

Mr Hurd said that the victim had been happy to kiss her “boyfriend”, but had repeatedly said she was too young to be intimately touched.

Trueman was convicted of eight counts of indecent assault and granted conditional bail to return to court to be sentenced next month.