MAN FROM COVENTRY, DAVID BEESLEY, SENTENCED AFTER SEXUAL OFFENCES AGAINST 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN LEICESTERSHIRE
A man who became fixated on a 13-year-old girl and risked everything to engage in sexual activity with her has been sentenced by a court.David Beesley was aware of her age from the start when he began exchanging sexually explicit messages and images via Snapchat.
In November 2019, he collected her from her school in Leicestershire and drove her to Groby Pool car park, where they had sex.
The following morning, he visited her at home after her parents had gone to work and again engaged in sexual activity with her.
The girl, who was a virgin, believed Beesley was a 19-year-old graphic design student at Warwick University.
However, he was actually 29, working as a Starbucks cashier at Corley Services on the M6 near Coventry, and he also lied about his surname.
They had sex on another occasion a few weeks later.
The girl later told her mother that she had sex with a man because she was worried she might be pregnant.
Her mother contacted the police.
At Leicester Crown Court on Friday, Beesley, now 30 and residing in Proffit Avenue, Coventry, was given a prison sentence after admitting to nine separate sexual offences involving a child.
Judge Timothy Spencer described Beesley's actions, saying: "I think you were overcome by some sort of madness.
You had a decent job, a steady relationship, and your partner was expecting your first baby.
You had so much positive going on in your life it's really difficult to decide why you threw it all away.
Right from the start, you knew she was 13, but you decided to live out your sexual obsession with her." The court was told that Beesley had first contacted the girl in September or October 2019, when he was 29 and she was just 13.
Prosecutor Michael Cramner Brown stated that Beesley met her after school on November 4.
He said: "He picked her up and took her to the car park at Groby Pool.
She thought they were just going to meet to talk and maybe share a kiss or two.
She was in her school uniform with some holes in her tights, and he was touching the holes, then they kissed and he pulled her onto his lap." The following morning, they had sex in her bed.
Afterwards, Beesley “went off the radar,” explained Mr.
Cramner Brown.
A few days later, the girl received a message from Beesley's partner claiming she was eight months pregnant with Beesley's child and asking the girl not to contact him.
Beesley later told her he did not have a partner and that the message was from his sister, who was being overprotective.
Meanwhile, Beesley convinced his partner that he was not seeing the girl again and denied knowing her age.
Mr.
Cramner Brown commented: "He managed to wriggle his way out of it with his girlfriend.
The girl believed him." Beesley returned to see the girl on December 4, and they had sex again, including unprotected sex, which led the girl to confide in her mother.
Once the police became involved, Beesley sold his phone.
However, because he was under contract, phone records helped authorities identify him.
