Man sexually abused two girls during game of ‘truth or dare’

Alfred Butler made the girls play a ‘truth or dare’ game at his flat in Kineton in which he got them to touch him and he also touched them indecently.

He pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to one charge of sexual activity with a child, two of sexual assault and four of causing a child to engage in sexual activity.

The 49-year-old, of St Peter’s Road, Kineton, at the time, was jailed for 12 months and was ordered to register as a sex offender for ten years.

The judge also imposed a sexual offences prevention order banning Butler from having unsupervised contact with any child under the age of 16 for life. Prosecutor Neil Bannister said that in the summer of last year Butler invited the girls, aged ten and 13, into his flat to use his Nintendo wii computer game.

But after about half an hour he offered them a cigarette, then suggested they play a game of ‘truth or dare’.

The dares involved indecent touching, which scared the girls. After doing what he told them, they retreated to the toilet where they tried to work out what to do.

The girls feared that if they tried to leave Butler would chase them, so they decided to act as if the game was over and to go back to playing the computer game.

But Butler suggested another truth or dare game and gave them a cigarette which he said had some ‘weed’ in it, and the girls were too scared to refuse it. Butler then dared the younger girl to take her trousers down, and he then kissed her hard on the mouth before making several inappropriate and suggestive comments to them.

The girls told him they had to leave because of the time, and after leaving they told the older girl’s mother what had happened, and the police were called.

But when he was arrested Butler vehemently denied the allegations, calling the girls liars and falsely accusing them of stealing £20 from him.

Mr Bannister added that in 1981 Butler had been fined for having unlawful sex with an under-age girl, and at Worcester Crown Court in 1999 he was jailed for two years for indecently assaulting a girl, since when he has been convicted for failing to comply with sex offender registration requirement.

Peter Freeman, defending, pointed out that at the time of the first offence Butler was himself only a teenager, and said the recent offences were not of the most serious nature.

Jailing Butler, who has been living at an address in Evesham while on bail, Judge Trevor Faber told him: “You have pleaded guilty to seven offences involving sexual assaults on two very young girls. It was persistent conduct. They were entitled to feel safe in your home, and their parents were entitled to expect you to behave appropriately towards them.

“But you invited them to play a game of truth or dare. It was a ruse to get those girls to touch your private parts and for you to touch them indecently.”