A trans woman who groomed and raped a vulnerable young girl nine times has been jailed for more than 20 years.
James Groves, 51, who goes by the name April but was tried as a man, was convicted of 18 child sex offences and one count of attempting to pervert the course of justice at Bristol Crown Court.
The ‘manipulative’ child sex offender raped the girl nine times over a number of years while she was a child.
His victim, who cannot be named but was praised by police for her ‘exceptional bravery’, told the trial she had ‘lost my childhood’ because of
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