AUTHOR: Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
TITLE: No jail for man who played strip poker with girls, 13
DATE: 8:24 AM
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<p class="mobile-post">A MAN who watched two 13-year-old girls parade naked in front of him after
he taught them strip poker has escaped jail. Judge Nicholas Coleman told
Brian Jolley, 24, that although the offences had been opportunistic, there
was suspicion that he had harboured desires for the girls before the games
took place. Jolley, a sanitary cleaner of Godeby Court, Huntingdon, was
sentenced to a community order for three years with a condition that he
undertakes special training. He was also put on the Sex Offenders Register
and banned from working with anyone aged under 16, and ordered to pay £250
costs. Jolley was convicted of three offences of inciting a child to engage
in sexual activity after a trial at Peterborough Crown Court in August, and
was cleared of eight other offences, all of which he denied. Judge Coleman
told Jolley: "You persuaded them to take off their clothes and you watched
them parade around in your home." He added: "You were in a position of
trust, there was a great difference in age. Plainly these young girls you
found attractive and exciting."  But Judge Coleman said Jolley had not
touched the girls and his offending failed to cross the custody threshold by
a narrow margin. The court heard that Jolley, who was of previous good
character, had been persuaded to teach "dirty" card games by one of the
13-year-olds who was then joined by a friend and the trio ended up naked or
near naked. One of the girls left and the games continued. Jolley had also
been accused of groping one of the girls and simulating sex with her, but
had been cleared of the offences by the jury.</p>
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