Youth membership employee fell pregnant after sexually abusing schoolboy, 14, at skate park
Annie Hall, 21, met the boy at a bus station and swapped Snapchat accounts, which she used to bombard him with messages and even discussed baby names before ending their sordid relationship
Annie Hall has avoided jail(Image: Cheshire Police)
A youth club worker fell pregnant after having sex with a boy of 14 in bushes and on parks during a month-long campaign of abuse, a court heard.
Annie Hall, 21, even discussed baby names with the schoolboy before ending their sordid relationship and returning to her ex-boyfriend. She met him at a bus station and swapped Snapchat accounts, which she used to bombard him with messages.
Hall, of Warrington, was 19 when she regularly met up with the lad and had sex with him in a skate park, a recreation ground and a bush, Liverpool Crown Court heard. She pleaded guilty to a catalogue of child sex offences but was spared jail.
Liverpool Crown Court, where Hall was sentenced(Image: Liverpool Echo)
Prosecutor Martyn Walsh said the offences took place over a four-month period. The first time they met up, they “kissed and hugged” but went on to have sex more than 10 times, he said. Her crimes eventually came to light when she fell pregnant with the teen’s child.
Messages subsequently found on their phones revealed “declarations of love expressed by both parties” and references to the potential name of their unborn child. Tragically, she was said to have suffered a miscarriage.
The boy told police that he and Hall had “begun to argue” towards the end of their “relationship” and said she “would go mad and start kicking off” if he failed to respond to her texts, the Liverpool Echo reports.
She ultimately split up with him and resuming contact with her ex-boyfriend, having told him she “loved them both” but was planning to rekindle her former relationship, the court was told.
Hall messaged the boy on Snapchat(Image: Getty Images)
Hall, who previously worked at Warrington Youth Zone, has no previous convictions. Joseph Lees, defending, told the court: “Ms Hall is someone of previous good character and someone who entered an early guilty plea some considerable time before any trial.
“While she has no formal diagnosis, she is currently undergoing investigations for ADHD, autism spectrum disorder and neurodiversity. Although there is a discrepancy in age, they remained two young people engaged in a wholly inappropriate relationship.
“It is clear that she is somebody who presents as far younger than her chronological age with a lack of maturity.
“She is someone who endured a particularly difficult upbringing, someone with no knowledge of her birth father and who was abandoned by her birth mother into the care of her grandparents. She was adopted at the age of five along with her siblings.
“She describes her relationship with her adoptive mother as messy, and she frequently clashed with her adoptive father. She has now re-established contact with her adoptive family.
“She is someone who has significant remorse. She has not had any contact with the complainant since ending that relationship some time ago.”
Hall admitted seven counts of sexual activity with a child. She was handed a 24-month imprisonment suspended for two years with 180 hours of unpaid work and a rehabilitation activity requirement of up to 25 days.
Judge Dennis Watson KC also handed a restraining order which will ban her from contacting her victim for the next five years, as well as a sexual harm prevention order lasting the same period. She will be required to sign the sex offenders’ register for the next decade.
