A 12-year-old girl was too scared to tell her mother after a man sexually assaulted her.
Instead she texted her friend in the early hours of March 24, 2019, saying: ‘Scared, need to tell you, can’t even tell mum… Mark sexually abused me.’
Mark Mitchell, 53, had touched her groin for a period of 15 minutes, according to Warwickshire Police.
The girl, who cannot be named, was scared of speaking up at first.