Drunk dental receptionist sexually assaulted boy, 13, in park before exposing herself
A DENTAL receptionist groped a 13-year-old boy and told him: “I’m going to ride you ’til morning.”
Jade Berry, 27, drunkenly approached the lad as he chatted to a pal in a nature reserve.
Berry sat between them before stroking the teen’s privates over his clothing then offering him sex.
As the lads got up to go, she exposed herself and passed out.
When he got home the boy told his mum who called cops.
Berry was traced after leaving her bank card and phone on the bench at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.
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Berry, who had binged on white wine, said later: “Oh my God, I do not recall anything.”
She faced two years’ jail after admitting sexual assault.
She was also ordered to wear an electronic 'sobriety' tag for 120 days as part of an alcohol abstinence monitoring programme and will have to complete 35 rehabilitation activity days.
Berry was told to sign on the Sex Offenders’ Register for ten years.
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The incident occurred on October 3 last year as Berry was making her way through the 300-acre nature reserve after drinking heavily with friends.
James Coutts, prosecuting, said: “The victim was seated on a bench in woodland when the defendant approached him.
"She was unknown to him and was clearly intoxicated.
“She sat between the two boys and began to touch and rub his genitals and the upper area of his thigh over his clothing whilst making highly inappropriate and sexualised comments.
“She said she was going to 'ride him till morning'.
“They had in fact been talking previously about his upcoming 14th birthday - and it was quite clear to them she knew how old he was.
“The boys almost immediately left, leaving her on the bench. She removed her clothing and exposed her genitals and buttocks before passing out.
"They did take a video of the scene.
“The victim went home and told his mother who contacted the police.
"The officers attended the scene and found her bank card and her phone.
“By the time the officers arrived she had left the area. But she was arrested on October 5.
"Her response to being arrested was, ‘Oh My God, I do not recall anything, like.’”
The court heard the victim had tried to commit suicide and also suffered night terrors which had caused him to wet the bed.
Berry had one previous conviction for drink driving from 2021.
Her counsel John Wyn Williams said: ''She has sadly suffered from mental health problems since the age of 15 or 16 and Covid was a particularly difficult time for her.
“She has a self-destructive nature and because of this nature she has turned to alcohol to deal with his issues but she now realises that is not the answer to her problems.
“It seems that her alcohol intoxication may have led her into doing and committing this offence.
"There is genuine heartfelt remorse and she shows victim empathy."
Sentencing, judge Mr Recorder Mr Eric Lamb, said: ''I must have regard to whether or not you present a risk of serious harm to members of the public by the commission of further specific offences, in your case the conclusion is that such a risk is low.
"I accept that there is genuine and heartfelt remorse.
“On the one hand, this is a sexual assault on a young person by someone who is 27 years of age and it is plainly a serious matter.
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"But on the other side there is strong personal mitigation as a result of genuine remorse, and the series of events that have led you to your mental health difficulties.
"You now realise that you must alter your ways.''
