A MARRIED father of two who got a schoolgirl to perform a sex act on him was today starting a four-month jail term.
Nadeem Arif, 24, of Lister Street, Accrington, had earlier escaped jail after admitting indecent assault on the 14-year-old, but had flouted the court order he received instead.
Arif had originally received a three year community rehabilitation order. A judge said all he had had to do was turn up to see his probation officer when required.
Judge Raymond Bennett told the defendant, who had twice breached the order:”It was not a very difficult thing to do. You have to learn you have to comply with court orders otherwise something nasty happens to you — and that is what is going to happen now.”
June Morris, prosecuting for the probation service, told Burnley Crown Court the victim and her friend had been drinking.
In Accrington, they met up with the defendant and another man who were delivering takeaway pizzas. The men drove to an isolated lane and the 14-year-old girl remained in the front of the car with Arif.
Miss Morris said Arif then got out of the car, walked around the front of the vehicle, pulled the schoolgirl out by the arm and told her to commit a sex act on him.
The girl felt intimidated because of the defendant’s build and felt she had no alternative. The prosecutor said Arif had no previous convictions for sex offences.
Tim Ashmole, defending, said what happened was “seemingly consensual oral sex” although the girl was under age.
The defendant, whose pre-sentence report made bleak reading, had brought shame on his family and himself.
He and his wife had an arranged marriage which had not been the most successful of relationships. The offence had added to the pressure on the marriage and his relationship within the family itself. Arif was a little down, perhaps even depressed.
Mr Ashmole said if Arif was sent to prison it would be his first custodial sentence.
The court could impose a hefty fine but if the defendant had to go to prison, the sentence could be kept to the minimum possible in all the circumstances.
