“To your own children in your drunken state you were a dreadful mother, you sexually abused children while your own two youngest children were in the house.”
Judge Sheridan said that Tompkins had flirted with her victims in a “predatory and highly sexualised way”, adding that her actions were “outrageous” and had a “devastating” impact on their lives.
“Your definition of an adult is far away from the legal definition, one of your victims was just days away from his 14th birthday,” he added.
“I watched you in this case, I saw no tears in your eyes. You are a disgrace as a mother and I do not hesitate to say that.”
Prosecuting, Kim Peston described how the defendant had treated her home like a “party house”, where the consumption of alcohol and cannabis was freely permitted in an “easy environment”.
She told the court how Tompkins had first abused two boys in February last year, adding that she had become “suggestive” and performed a “striptease” for them in her living room.
The court also heard how she had attempted to “cajole” two other young boys into having sexual intercourse with her on another occasion, and had used Facebook in an attempt to pressure another into engaging sexual activity.
Listening as impact statements from her victims were read to Judge Sheridan, Tompkins was seen shaking her head and rolling her eyes as the details of her crimes were laid bare.
She was jailed for seven years, placed on the Sex Offender Registry, and banned from having any contact with underage children for life.
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