A driver raped two schoolgirls after offering them lifts home and demanding sex in remote areas, a court heard.
Simon
Dabbs, 28, waited near the gates of a school in Exmouth, Devon, and
cruised the seafront looking for girls, Exeter Crown Court was told.
He
allegedly gave a false age and offered lifts but then drove them onto a
common and told them he wanted sexual acts or would leave them there.
Remote: One girl was allegedly taken to a car
park on Woodbury Common and told she would not be taken home until she
had performed a sex act (file)
Dabbs also assaulted one girl at his Exmouth home when she was 14 years old, and told her 'I don't care', the court heard.
‘He
took them on the pretext of giving them lifts or at his home,’
prosecutor Sean Brunton said.‘He would tell the girls he was younger
than he was.
He would offer them cannabis to smoke. He would threaten not to take them home unless they did things for him.
‘The two girls were 14 or 15 at the time and he was 25 or 26. He assaulted them despite the disparity in their ages.’
There
were two less serious sexual assaults on two other girls two years
earlier, followed by the more serious rape offences, Mr Brunton said.
Scene: Dabbs allegedy assaulted one girl at a
slipway near Exmouth beach after telling her 'no-one can see us here'
and 'what happens here stays here' (file)
This indicated an interest in underage girls, the prosecutor said. Dabbs has Asperger syndrome, he added.
The rape on the 14-year-old happened when
he took the girl back to his family home when nobody else was
there, and forced her to have sex, Mr Brunton said.
'She was an inexperienced and immature girl who was vulnerable and was worried she might be put in care if anyone found out'
Sean Brunton, prosecuting
He added: ‘She was an
inexperienced and immature girl who was vulnerable and was worried she
might be put in care if anyone found out.'
He said the same girl was 14 or 15 when Dabbs offered to take her home from the centre of Exmouth but instead drove to an area known as Woodbury Common.
There
he offered her cannabis, and made her take part in a sex act with him,
telling her he wouldn't take her home if she refused, Mr Brunton said.
Another
girl was allegedly taken to a car park on the Common and told she would
not be taken home until she had performed a sex act on him.
The prosecutor said sexual assaults
occurred on two different girls in 2005 or 2006 when Dabbs had ‘already
developed a taste for young girls’.
Trial: Dabbs, of Exmouth, denies five rapes,
five alternative counts of sexual activity with a child, and three
sexual assaults, at Exeter Crown Court
‘One of them recalls him hanging around outside her college when she was 15 and still in uniform,’ Mr Brunton said.
He said Dabbs assaulted one girl at a slipway on Exmouth beach after
telling her ‘no-one can see us here’ and ‘what happens here stays here’.
'He
would offer them cannabis to smoke. He would threaten not to take them
home unless they did things for him. The two girls were 14 or 15 at the
time and he was 25 or 26 and he assaulted them despite the disparity in
their ages'
Sean Brunton, prosecuting
Mr Brunton added that although Dabbs suffers from Asperger syndrome, it does not provide any defence for his alleged behaviour.
He said: ‘He has a certain immaturity in social skills which renders him more akin to a teenager.
'But it is not relevant to the major issues in this case which is whether these offences were committed.
‘He is not saying he misread the situation. He is saying these things never happened or were 100 per cent consensual.’
Dabbs, of Exmouth, denies five rapes, five alternative counts of sexual activity with a child, and three sexual assaults.
The offences are alleged to have taken place against four girls between September 2005 and March 2010. The trial continues.
Remote: One girl was allegedly taken to a car
park on Woodbury Common and told she would not be taken home until she
had performed a sex act (file)
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