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“I did not violate the law, but they still look at me critically, they treat me like a criminal who cheated on a minor,” are the first words of the 32-year-old mother, Thea Vincent, after the court decision that acquitted her.
The accusations that she seduced a 14-year-old girl seem, like herself, intended to haunt her.
Vincent couldn’t hold back tears in court when the jury verdict was announced that cleared her of the seduction charge.
The chronicle of the case
In her testimony, Vincent insisted that when she began having sex with the boy she did not know his age and believed that he was at least 16 years old.
He claimed that he only knew the teenager’s actual age when the sexual act was completed and they began to talk about the young man’s school and lessons.
According to the Daily Mail and other British media, a factor that emerged yesterday afternoon played a decisive role in the court’s decision (which was made in just one hour by the juries).
Defense attorneys discovered evidence that the young man had posted a false date of birth on his Facebook profile, making him appear much older than he was. The new information (screenshot, etc.) was presented yesterday to Judge Ian Laurie, who ruled that it could be accepted and presented in court today.
What the teenager said
The teenager, who was called today to return to his witness chair, explained that he had set the false date when he was given a new mobile phone as a gift shortly before his 13th birthday. Because he had received the mobile phone a week before his 13th birthday and Facebook requires its users to be 13 to access the platform, the child entered a false date.
“I was in a hurry because I wanted to play,” the boy told the court. The date he set, namely 2000, was chosen at random and according to him he simply forgot to change it later.
Asked persistently by the 32-year-old’s lawyers how old he had finally introduced him to Vincent that afternoon, the boy insisted that “in no case did he tell him that he had turned 16 and that he was going to turn 17,” as he claims.
The 32-year-old mother and mother of three from Gloucestershire, Britain, categorically denied that she knew the age of the teenager when she called him home and threw him to bed.
“He didn’t tell me what class he was in” and “it never crossed my mind that he might be a minor” are some of the arguments Tea Vincent used in court yesterday, according to the Daily Mail, to justify her actions.
The defendant admitted from the beginning that she did have sex with one of the boys whom she called home one day in October 2018, after seeing them play soccer in a neighboring park. Vincent, then 30, offered water to the two teenagers and then “pulled” the 14-year-old from her room to have sex. According to Vincent, however, until the time of the sexual act, she had no idea that the boy was under 16 years old.
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