Firefighter 'had sex with girl, 13, in his car after meeting her at school open day'

The miss was 13 years of property erstwhile Scott Cameron and different occurrence officers attended an unfastened time astatine her schoolhouse successful bid to enlistee caller occurrence cadets, a tribunal has heard

A firefighter had enactment with a miss successful his car aft gathering her astatine a schoolhouse unfastened time to promote kids to articulation the occurrence cadets, a tribunal has heard.

Scott Cameron, of Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service appeared successful tribunal yesterday charged with a bid of kid enactment offences, the Liverpool Echo reports. The 39-year-old told the teen that she was "gorgeous" earlier instructing her to nonstop him bare pictures of herself and arranging a gathering with her successful the woods, the prosecution said.

The dad-of-two admits having engaged successful intersexual enactment with the complainant but maintains that helium believed she was aged implicit 16. The assemblage astatine Liverpool Crown Court heard however the miss was 13 years of property erstwhile Cameron and a fig of different occurrence officers attended an unfastened time astatine her schoolhouse successful bid to enlistee caller occurrence cadets and arsenic portion of an ongoing project.

One of the defendant's colleagues, Ed Doinog, was said to person "made an impression" connected the pupils to specified an grade that the teen and her person made him a handwritten paper which they aboriginal dropped disconnected astatine a occurrence station.

The missive "complimented him for the occupation helium did" and asked a bid of questions astir his role, arsenic good arsenic containing the complainant's telephone fig and their ages. But Mr Ball described however "events took thing of a sinister turn" astir a period later, saying: "Somehow, accidental the prosecution, Scott Cameron had got clasp of her fig and, successful his messages to her, helium was pretending to beryllium idiosyncratic else.

"At first, she thought it was Ed Doinog. They exchanged messages and she was complimented connected looking 'gorgeous'. This attraction made her consciousness special. But this was not a accepted oregon mean relationship, for evident reasons, and determination was astir 25 years' quality successful their ages.

"After a month, the suspect began asking her to nonstop him photographs. She recalled being overseas connected vacation erstwhile she was asked for bikini pictures. She ended up sending immoderate partially dressed pictures. Further requests were made for nude photographs.

"These requests became much persistent. They turned into threats. The defendant, accidental the prosecution, was saying to her things similar helium was going to halt talking to her if she did not nonstop 'proper ones' and that the pictures were going to get sent around. He adjacent offered to wage her for photographs."

Cameron reportedly "told her who helium really was and asked to conscionable her" successful woodland, astir 10 months aft helium had archetypal visited her school. Mr Ball added: "Quite what this joined father-of-two successful his precocious 30s was doing, firstly, pretending to beryllium idiosyncratic other past asking for nude photographs and past arranging to conscionable this schoolgirl volition beryllium for him to explain.

"She made it wide to Scott Cameron that she was lone 13. But, members of the jury, that did not enactment him off, and, from the strength and frequence of their messages and meetings, this seemed to beryllium thing that Scott Cameron relished and surely could not resist."

The 2 past began gathering "regularly" and, connected 1 occasion, she "snook out" of her location and had enactment with him successful his car. But she aboriginal deleted his telephone fig aft helium seemingly became "argumentative" with her successful his messages. Cameron - who was based astatine Crosby Fire Station but had "working links" with Bootle Fire Station, Netherton Fire Station and Storrington Avenue Fire Station successful Croxteth - made nary remark erstwhile archetypal interviewed by detectives.

However, during a 2nd circular of questioning helium subsequently, stated that helium "started to get messages connected Snapchat from accounts helium didn’t know" earlier a "female came up to him 1 time recognising him from her school", seemingly telling him that she was a sixth signifier student. He past "portrayed her arsenic being obsessive" and arsenic having "harassed" him, portion helium "even suggested that she was sometimes nether the power of drugs".

The suspect maintained astatine this signifier that "nothing intersexual had happened betwixt them", though helium had been "sent immoderate pictures which helium did not petition and deleted consecutive away". Cameron besides claimed that helium was not alert of the paper which was sent to the occurrence presumption and denied having posed arsenic Mr Doinog portion sending messages to the girl.

Mr Ball said: "He told the constabulary that helium was a bully idiosyncratic and that helium didn’t bash atrocious things. He emphasised that helium was joined with children. He said that helium felt sick to the tummy astir the allegations and was acrophobic astir her mindset. He besides told the constabulary that she had been abused by idiosyncratic other and she had asked him for immoderate assistance to find the antheral responsible. When helium refused to assistance her, helium said that she turned nasty.

"You volition beryllium capable to bespeak connected this and whether this is simply a bittersweet denotation of a young miss naively looking up to an older antheral for assistance and support. The prosecution accidental that, having heard each of the evidence, you volition beryllium capable to reason that Scott Cameron was not a saviour, a protagonist oregon a soulmate but an abuser and manipulator of her."

Cameron was said to person "had entree to respective numbers", though helium told the constabulary that helium lone had 1 mobile - an iPhone which was seized upon his arrest. When this instrumentality was subsequently "cracked with specializer software" aft helium refused to item the entree code, it was recovered to incorporate a representation of the girls' paper arsenic good arsenic a fig of bare photographs of the complainant.

The tribunal heard that "sexual interaction is admitted arsenic having happened" by the defendant, with Mr Ball telling the jury: "The absorption of the proceedings volition beryllium connected whether you are definite to cull that Scott Cameron reasonably believed that she was 16 astatine the time.

"The prosecution accidental that this was not a one-off oregon accidental gathering wherever a azygous mistake could beryllium made, but this is simply a lawsuit which is the chronicle of a antheral exercising his ain choices, who knew precisely what helium was doing and utilizing each of his wider gained experiences arsenic an big to exploit an impressionable and obliging 13 oregon 14-year-old, a young miss who was the entity of his attention."

The trial, earlier Judge David Swinnerton, continues, and is owed to past astir a week, with Cameron, who is defended by Kate Morley, denying a full of 11 intersexual offences.