Gwent Police officer showed girl pornographic videos, court told

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Gwent Police officer showed girl pornographic videos, court told

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John ********* denies five charges relating to the ******* ****** of a child

A policeman allegedly showed a young girl pornographic videos and touched her inappropriately, a court has heard.

Gwent Police officer John *********, 42, is accused of making the girl watch videos featuring half-****** women and asking her to act out what she saw.

On Tuesday the jury at Cardiff Crown Court was shown the police interview with the child, who was below the age of 13, recorded four days after the final time he allegedly assaulted her.

Mr *********, from Cardiff, denies five charges relating to the ******* ****** of a child.

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In the interview the girl – who cannot be identified – told an officer she didn’t want to repeat what she had been made to watch but felt “forced” because Mr ********* kept on asking.

The girl said the first time he allegedly assaulted her they were sat on the sofa playing PlayStation, and Mr ********* had a blanket over him which he then put over her because she said he was cold.

She told the officer a “few minutes later” he started touching her inappropriately and “it felt like it lasted a long time”.

The court heard the alleged offences happened during the Covid pandemic, and there was a break between the girl’s contact with Mr ********* during lockdowns.

She said Mr ********* told her not to tell her parents, saying “he told me he’d get into a lot of trouble, and it would all be my fault”.

The girl said Mr ********* said “weird and disgusting things” and asked “what I learnt in SRE [**** and relationships education] classes”.

A pre-recorded cross-examination video from June 2022 of the girl’s evidence was also played to the court.

Matthew Roberts, defending, said Mr ********* denies the girl’s allegations and said he had never been in his house alone with her.

Mr ********* denies two counts of ******* ********, two of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in ******* activity, and one of causing a child to watch a ******* act.

The trial continues.

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