20-year-old British babysitter Jade Hatt has escaped jail despite having sex with an 11-year-old boy last November.
The woman was babysitting the youngster when the offence occurred, with the boy being 5 years below the age of consent.
In a bizarre twist, the father of the boy (who remains unnamed for legal reasons) defended Hatt, claiming that his son was ‘fully up for this’ despite being unable to legally consent.
He reportedly said in court: “I know he told her he was 15. He looks older than his years. He is sex mad. He would have been fully up for this experience and in many ways sees it as a notch on his belt and is totally unaffected by it."
Prosecutor Hannah Squire revealed to the court that Hatt had already been involved in a sexual relationship with the young boy’s father.
"The defendant was friends with the boy's father, with whom she had had a brief sexual relationship.
“He would ask her to babysit- she had babysat his 11-year-old son on six or seven occasions. On one of those occasions this offence took place.
“It was during the day and the boy was off school. The defendant arrived at about 11.30am. The boy was laying down, Jade Hatt sat on top of him, sat astride him, took off her clothes and removed his.
“Sexual intercourse took place. According to him it was fairly brief- about 45 seconds. She told him she enjoyed it, he said he had not as it was wrong."
Hatt avoided jail and was handed a six-month suspended sentence and is now required to register as a sex offender for the next seven years. She has also been banned from contact with young boys without supervision.