A Darlington Paedophile, Aiden Battye, has been incarcerated for attempting to sexually assault a young girl while she was asleep.
Aiden Battye, then 17 and now 21, was apprehended when the victim awoke to him removing her pants and attempted to sexually assault her in October 2020.
On December 5, at Teesside Crown Court, Aiden Battye was sentenced to four years in prison, registered as a lifelong sex offender, and issued a Sexual Harm Prevention Order along with a restraining order.
Aiden Battye, 21, from Darlington, has been imprisoned for attempting to sexually assault a little child while she was asleep in her bed. Aiden Battye faced an additional charge of sexual assault concerning a distinct event involving another adolescent female.
He refuted both allegations but was convicted of attempted rape after a week-long trial at Durham Crown Court in October.
The jury however found him not guilty of the separate sexual assault incident.
In a victim impact statement, she said: “I feel my life changed when Aiden tried to rape me – I am a different person and not in a good way.
“There has not been a day where I don’t have thoughts about what happened to me, and this has caused me to feel depressed and experience suicidal thoughts.
“Other changes in my personality are an inability to focus, probably because I cannot get these events out of my head.
“A physical effect is that every day since the attack I have showered for up to an hour a day – I scrub myself to the point of making my skin raw.
“I know it’s not about being clean, I just want to scrub the memory of it off my skin.
“I have struggled with my own guilt; I had thoughts that it was my fault. Him being found guilty has helped me to believe that other than my immediate family, there are people – in this case, the jury – who also believe me.”
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