Lesbian posed as boy to seduce girl, 12

A LESBIAN paedophile who posed as a boy to begin a relationship with a 12-year-old girl was yesterday convicted of indecent assault.

Kelly Trueman, 23, called herself Jake and concocted a string of lies about her former life to befriend a group of youngsters in Ripley, Derbyshire.

Derby Crown Court heard that the young victim believed she had embarked on her first relationship when she met the supposed teenage boy at Waingroves Primary School last August.

Mark Hurd, prosecuting, said that Trueman, posing as a 16-year-old boy, persuaded the victim’s parents to allow her to sleep at their house for five days, claiming her mother was dead and she had been made homeless by her father.

The 12-year-old said she kissed Trueman and told officers the woman had made repeated attempts to touch her in sexually.

Jurors heard that Trueman gave her victim a string of love bites across her neck and stomach and begged to be allowed to perform oral sex on the child.

The victim’s mother said she had spotted one of the love bites, but admitted that she found Trueman to be a “respectable, shy lad”.

The victim said: “I will grow up thinking I have been out with a girl, my first proper relationship was with a girl.

“I wouldn’t have gone out with him if I thought he was a girl.”

Trueman, who told police she was a lesbian, hung her head in her hands and choked back tears as she was convicted of eight counts of indecent assault.