November 2020 Paedophile from Exeter abused six year old girl A paedophile from Exeter has been jailed after his young victim became so tormented by her memories of abuse that she went to the police. Benjamin Stone subjected the girl to repeated sexual assaults when she was aged as young as six. He threatened to harm her or her family if she told anyone and she remained too frightened to do so until she was older. The trauma of the abuse continued to haunt her and she eventually told her mother and they went to the police together. Stone, aged 33, of no fixed address, Exeter, denied six counts of sexual assault or causing a child to engage in sexual activity but was found guilty by a jury at Exeter Crown Court. He was jailed for eight years by Judge David Evans, who put him on the sex offenders’ register for life and made a Sexual Harm Prevention Order which will prevent contact with children after his release. The judge told him: ”It was only when the victim was a little older that she felt able to tell her mother. She could not get intrusive thoughts out of her head and it affected her day to day life. “This is a measure of the harm you caused that young girl and that she will have to live with for the foreseeable future. The full extent may only become clear as the years pass”