Febuary 2010 Mum’s anger as her daughter’s sex abuser gets ‘lenient’ sentence A woman whose daughter was abused by a paedophile is appealing against his sentence because she believes it is too short. Roy Claxton, 62, was caught after he got the teenage girl pregnant. He was jailed for three years and nine months at Portsmouth Crown Court but the victim’s mother says it is not enough. She said: ‘At the moment there’s no justice for what he has done. ‘It’s affected my relationship with my daughter and I’d like to see him stay in prison forever. ‘There’s something wrong with him and I don’t think he’s safe to be around people. ‘I don’t think anything will help him, he won’t change.’ The 41-year-old mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has written to the Crown Prosecution Service complaining about the sentence on the grounds that it is unduly lenient and asking them to look at it again. Claxton, a former painter and decorator from Hooper Court, The Hard, Portsea, Portsmouth, was jailed after pleading guilty to a charge of sexual activity with a child between August 2007 and August 2008. He encouraged the girl, who is now 18, to have an abortion when she fell pregnant but she refused and gave birth to the child. A DNA test proved he was the father and he was arrested. The woman said: ‘I think my daughter just wants this over and done with which is why I’ve got to try and get the longer sentence for her. ‘He was given three years and nine months but he will only serve half that so by the time he is out she will have hardly had time to move on. ‘She hasn’t really had a childhood – she hasn’t really had a life. ‘I want her to feel safe. Knowing he is in prison makes it easier but then it’s not long enough for all she has had to suffer.’ The court heard Claxton groomed the girl before abusing her. Her mother said: ‘I want closure for my daughter and for me on the whole thing. ‘I thought we’d get that when he was sentenced but we haven’t. ‘He doesn’t seem sorry and it’s as if he is proud of what he has done. He needs to recognise that what he’s done is not right. The longer he gets the more time she has got to get on with her life.’