Mother sets up seven-year-old daughter for rape by 54-year-old man

OYEWALE OLUWASEUN

The court has heard how the mother of a seven-year-old girl had set up her daughter to be raped by her 54-year-old acquaintance.

The would-be-rapist, Stuart Bailey, and the woman, who cannot be named, allegedly planned their sex attack on the girl in text messages and phone calls.

A jury was told that Bailey asked the girl’s mother to ‘tart up’ the schoolgirl with make-up before ‘having his way’ with her.

In several texts to the girl’s mother, he allegedly said: ‘Let me do as I please.’ In another he said: ‘What is she wearing? Is she in school uniform?’

Prosecutor Jim Davis told how the woman’s partner suspected she was in contact with Bailey – and later discovered the text messages planning the ordeal with the young girl.

Mr. Davis said the partner made a statement to police where he had suspicions that ‘she was cheating on me’ and checked her mobile phone.

Mr Davies said: ‘After confronting his partner about his suspicions, she reacted angrily and told him to leave the house.’

But the man told police how he refused to hand back her phone.

He said: ‘She was shouting at me to give her phone back and stopped me from leaving the house. I had to physically push her out of the way to get out.’

The jury heard that he left the house with the woman’s phone – and checked the messages when he arrived in work.

Cardiff Crown Court heard how the couple were using the letter ‘R’ to symbolize the word ‘rape’.

Other texts read out in court read: ‘Let’s abuse her’ and ‘I can R her.’

He described them as ‘horrific’, and that he couldn’t finish reading them as they were ‘too upsetting’.

Bailey, of Rhydyfelin, Pontypridd, and the woman, who cannot be named, both deny with arranging and commissioning child sex offences.

The trial at Cardiff Crown Court continues.

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