"Your actions during all of this were deliberate, intentional"
Khaled Abidi was jailed for five years for historic sexual abuse, carrying out “disgraceful and disgusting” attacks on a girl as young as six in the early 2000s.
Abidi, of Hertfordshire, was in his mid-20s at the time.
Wood Green Crown Court heard he abused the trust of the girl’s parents between 2001 and 2003, attempting to have intercourse with her when she was six.
As she got older, Abidi molested the victim and forced her to touch his penis.
Recorder Karl King told him: “Your actions during all of this were deliberate, intentional, and, in fact, revealed something of a fixation you had with [the victim].”
When the victim tried to tell her parents, she was met with threats and manipulation, “making her frightened to what the consequences would be if she reported what he had done”.
The judge continued: “I consider that to be reflective of your sense of ongoing entitlement to do what you did, by preventing [the girl] from clearly raising with her parents the disgusting and disgraceful actions that you were carrying out.”
Now a woman, the victim told the court that Abidi’s abuse “destroyed” her mental health and caused her to be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
For years, the PTSD symptoms manifested in panic attacks, regular hospital trips and physical pain that doctors could find no diagnosis for.
Only after becoming a mother herself, could she face the prospect of reporting her abuser to the police.
The judge said: “She felt for many years that she had done something wrong. She blamed herself for what you had done to her.
“She was desperate to keep these events from her parents.
“She was frightened and worried about revealing the truth.”
Abidi’s barrister said he had lived blamelessly before and after his convictions; and that he now had his own family and wife to support, who are in financial difficulty without him.
He was jailed for five years under old laws, part of the Sexual Offences Act 1956.
Under current sentencing powers, made law through the Sexual Offences Act 2003, his convictions for attempted sexual intercourse (now considered attempted rape) and indecent assault (now sexual assault) might have earned him a longer prison sentence.
Abidi will also be on the sex offenders register for life.
He will also serve an additional year on license due to the “offenders of a particular concern” provision enshrined in the 1956 Sexual Offences Act.
The judge added: “It seems to me these sentences are the proportionate sentence that should be imposed.”
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