Jennifer Staines, 23, groomed her victims online under the name Jason Spiller saying she was looking for love.She even went on holiday with the girls and one relationship lasted for more than a year, convincing entire families that she was a man.
She wouldn’t let her victims – aged between 12 and 17 – touch her body and used condoms on the rubber penis. One of the girls went to her doctor believing she might be pregnant and so convincing was her deceit that one of her victims still struggles to believe she was in a relationship with a woman, not a man.
Staines was jailed at Bristol Crown Court for 39 months admitting four sexual assaults and two counts of assault by penetration.
She also admitted two counts of possessing indecent photos of one of the teenagers during a hearing yesterday.
Judge Barry Cotter QC said Staines ‘planned carefully to deceive’.
He told her: ‘You did everything to ensure you had the ability to engage in relationships in which they believed you were a gender you were not.
‘I can’t determine whether it was for love, love and sex, or just sex.’
She was caught out in September 2014, when the mother of one of the victims became suspicious.
Police visited Staines’ home and found DNA on the rubber penis.
Police believe there may be more victims out there and have appealed for anyone who may have been contacted by Staines, posing as Jason, to get in touch.
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