A 102-year-old man has been sentenced for sexually abusing a young girl from the age of five in the 1970s.
A judge suspended Douglas Hammersley’s two-year prison sentence but ordered him to pay his victim £25,000 compensation within 21 days, the Independent reports. The child rapist pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent assault against the victim, who was between five and eight years old at the time.
Aylesbury Crown Court heard that the abuse took place in the Buckinghamshire area around 40 years ago. The victim, now in her 40s, finally reported Hammersley to the police after his family threw him a 100th birthday party that was reported in a local newspaper. She was praised for her bravery and courage during the sentencing hearing on Monday.
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Hammersley, who was excused from attending, was given a two-year suspended prison sentence, placed on the sex offender register and ordered to pay £25,000 compensation and £3,500 costs. Judge Francis Sheridan said: “To award compensation is wholly unusual in a case like this but the young victim has carried this cross of abuse for year upon year upon year.
”She very properly complained to anyone that would listen. She has waited a very long time for justice but I hope justice is what she has got.”
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