Mum's rage as babysitter who had sex with her 11-year-old son is spared jail

A BABYSITTER who had sex with an 11-year-old boy will not go to jail despite an appeal by the victim’s mother.

Jade Hatt, 21, got a suspended sentence after she admitted straddling the naked schoolboy at his home.

The boy’s furious mother pushed for the case to be sent to the Court of Appeal which today ruled her sentence would not change.

The mum-of-six, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: “I’m absolutely gutted. Justice hasn’t been served, especially for my son who is suffering the worst out of this.

“I’m just so angry for him and that the right sentence wasn’t given to her.

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“She knew what she was doing, for them to come back and say the sentence doesn’t need to be changed is just outrageous.

“Everyone thought she should have got a bigger sentence.

“If it was the other way round and it was an older boy with a younger girl he would be going to prison.

“I just feel very tearful and gutted that justice hasn’t been done for my son.”

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Her son, now 12, was being babysat by petite Hatt when she stripped, took off his clothes and straddled him at his home in Swindon, Wilts.

The boy’s dad came to Hatt’s defence saying in court he was ‘fully up for the experience’ and saw it as ‘a notch on his belt’.

But the boy’s mum, who split from the dad seven years ago and now lives in East Sussex, said: “The judge should’ve focused on what my son said not what his idiot of a dad said.

“The court hasn’t taken into account my son’s feelings, he’s doesn’t eat properly, or sleep, he’s not himself.

“The court should take into account the emotional impact it’s had on him.

“I’m disgusted and have lost my faith in the justice system.

“My son should’ve got justice and she should’ve got the appropriate custodial sentence.

“Everyone should know that this can happen to girls but it also happens to boys with older women.

“Women should get the same sentence as men.

“There’s nothing I can do now except comfort and support my son.”

At Swindon Crown Court in October, Hatt of Swindon, Wilts, was given a six month jail term suspended for two years with supervision and told to register as a sex offender for seven years.

Judge Tim Mousley’s remarks were blasted as ‘deeply worrying’ by children’s charities when he said Hatt was immature and the boy was mature.

He said: “Having read everything before me, it was quite clear he was a mature 11-year-old and you were an immature 20-year-old so that narrows the arithmetic age gap between you.

"I have read the comments of the boy's father to the police where he doesn't consider you a typical 20-year-old. I have also read what he has said about the effect on the victim."

After the sentencing, a spokesman for the NSPCC said: “The judge’s comments in this case send out completely the wrong message and confirm a common view in society that the abuse of a young boy by a woman is somehow less serious than the abuse of a girl by a man.

“The offender in this case has escaped extremely lightly and you have to wonder whether, in the same circumstances, a man would have been treated the same.

“It beggars belief that Tim Mousley QC could say that the 11 year old victim’s maturity and the abuser’s immaturity "narrowed the age gap" and was reason to step outside the sentencing guidelines, and sends a deeply worrying signal.”