September 2012 Man who had sex with girl, 13, is jailed A man who had sex with a girl when she twice went missing from home has been jailed for two years. On both occasions the 13-year-old went missing she was found in Ryan Fenner-Jackson’s flat in Saffron Walden. Chelmsford Crown Court was told the girl admitted she had encouraged the 23-year-old “big time” and did not want him prosecuted, but Fenner-Jackson, of Cross Street, was arrested and pleaded guilty to four charges of sexual activity with a child. Judge David Turner QC said the law existed to protect children from themselves and that Fenner-Jackson should have resisted. He told Fenner-Jackson: “She made plain in her interview she encouraged you ‘big time’. “I accept there was no intimidation, threats or undue pressure or that you got her drunk. “It was sex between two people which was in the profoundly illegal zone and you are going to pay the price.” Richard Scott, prosecuting, said the girl met the defendant – then 22 – when she was drunk on August 10 last year and went to his flat. When the girl sobered up, they had sex. She had been a virgin up to that point. Police, who had been searching for her after her parents reported her missing, released Fenner-Jackson pending further inquiries. But the pair met up again a fortnight later and had again had sex. On that occasion, officers went to the defendant’s flat and found the girl sitting nearby. Mr Scott said: “She told police she had instigated it and she suggested Fenner-Jackson had initially put up a degree of resistance. She said he knew she was 13.” He added Fenner-Jackson was not considered “predatory”, but argued he was “susceptible to the temptation of young girls who are maturing but who had not reached the golden threshold of 16”. The judge imposed a sexual offences prevention order to last for seven years which controls who Fenner-Jackson lives with, works with or contacts. The judge also ordered him to sign the sex offenders’ register for ten years. David Lyons, mitigating, said the girl, who refused to cooperate was police, was “older in attitude than her age”. But he added: “He should have said no and thrown her out.”