Angela Davies was in her early 20s when she had sexual intercourse with the boy but lied that she thought he was older
Angela Davies(Image: Birmingham Live)
A woman who got pregnant after having sex with a 13-year-old boy sobbed and held her hands to her face as she was jailed.
Angela Davies was in her early 20s and addicted to drugs when she had intercourse with the victim – It took her more than two decades to admit the truth.
She gave birth to the child fathered by the boy but lied to social services about how old the father was when the child was taken into care.
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Davies, now aged in her 40s, from Shopton Road, Hodge Hill pleaded guilty to one offence of indecent assault on a male person.
She was sentenced to two and a half years at Birmingham Crown Court on Thursday, June 12.
Judge Peter Carr was asked to consider suspending imprisonment by Davies’ barrister but he said: “I’m afraid the answer to that is I cannot.”
The offence ‘led to the pregnancy of this defendant’, said prosecutor Darron Whitehead.
He told the court Davies was a ‘regular drinker and user of drugs’ at the time, adding she ‘knew he was aged 13’.
She initially told the boy somebody else was the father of the child before confessing the truth to him, but she did not register the victim as the father on the birth certificate.
The child was taken into care aged four and ultimately placed into permanent foster care.
Mr Whitehead said: “The defendant disclosed to social services (the victim) was the father but she lied about his age.
“She told social services he was much older. This in-turn meant social services were unable to locate him.”
The victim reported Davies to the police in the early 2020s. Mr Whitehead said: “She admitted having sexual intercourse with (the victim) once when she was in her early 20s, she believed him to be 17 or 18 at the time. He looked much older than 13.”
He added: “She asserted she didn’t believe she had taken advantage of him in any way and didn’t believe he felt so at the time.”
Mr Whitehead told the court that Davies’ guilty plea at a hearing in April this year was ‘the first time she had acknowledged his true age and her knowledge of his true age’.
In a statement the victim said the attack had caused him ‘a lot of heartache and pain and suffering’.
Mr Whitehead said: “It is still weighing heavily on his mind on a daily basis that she caused him to become a father at a very young age when he describes he should have been enjoying childish pursuits.
“He expressed hatred towards the defendant and attributes his personal problems to the effect of this matter.”
Cathlyn Orchard, defending, stated Davies had a ‘very bad childhood’ and was coerced into taking drugs at 17, which led to a cocaine and heroin addiction that ruined her ambition of joining The Army.
She confirmed she had been clean of drugs for over ten years but had ongoing mental health problems, including a personality disorder.
Ms Orchard argued Davies did not ‘groom or coerce’ the victim, adding she ‘knew nothing about his personal circumstances’ at the time.
She continued: “She is full of shame for what she did. Full of remorse.”
Finally, making a case for a suspended sentence, the barrister submitted Davies could be rehabilitated, was a low risk of reoffending while prison would have a harmful impact on her mental health and expose her to drugs again.
Judge Carr, passing sentence, said: “I’m afraid there is no alternative but to impose an immediate custodial sentence.
“The fact you have put your criminality and drug addiction behind you is commendable but does not afford you mitigation.
“I also cannot and do not ignore the effect this offence had on your victim.”