Mum, 40, used 15-year-old boy she had a baby with as 'sexual play thing'

A mum who sexually abused a 15-year-old boy and eventually gave birth to his child has been jailed for child sex offences. A court heard how Sarah Campbell had sex with her victim on a golf course and under a blanket while others were sleeping in the same room.

Campbell, 40, would ply the boy with cocaine and cannabis so they could “get off their barnets” together as part of a series of abuse over two years that saw her victim treated as a “sexual play thing”, Liverpool Crown Court heard.

Martine Snowdon, prosecuting, said Campbell started grooming the boy in 2016, the Liverpool Echo reports. She told the court that the pair had sex multiple times and that she would offer him drugs. Ms Snowdon said: “They would “get off their barnets” regularly, as [the victim] put it, smoking cannabis and taking cocaine provided by her.”

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Campbell would try to avoid social services finding the boy by getting him to sneak into her house at odd times of day and hide, Ms Snowdon told the court. She then fell pregnant with his child and was charged with multiple sexual offences against him.

At the start of her trial, Campbell fled and was later convicted in her absence. Eventually she was arrested and held in custody.

Simon Christie, defending, said Campbell was herself a victim of abuse. She had been trying to get counselling in prison and was using her time there positively, he told the court. Mr Christie said: “The defendant, in her first experience of custody, has put her time to good use already. She has been given responsibility as a wing cleaner.”

Judge Ian Harris told Campbell her actions had robbed the boy of part of his childhood. He said she