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A sexual predator who assaulted two nine-year-old boys in a Nottingham park has left one victim making "excuses not to go out," according to his mother's victim impact statement read at Nottingham Crown Court.
The boys' mothers described the devastating effects on their sons. One said her "once bubbly and outgoing child" who "loved socialising with his friends, going out on his bike and having fun in Melbourne Park" now "makes excuses not to go out and has put a barrier up." She added: "This man had no right to do what he did to my son, the impact this has had has been devastating."
The other mother stated her son has "become withdrawn, asking why a grown man shows him dirty videos like this," and is "petrified the man will come after him and take him despite all of us reassuring him he will not do it."
After a week-long trial, a jury unanimously convicted Afghan national Dawajan Ahmadzai, 27, of no fixed address, of two counts of sexual assault of a child and one count of causing a child to watch a sexual act, per Nottinghamshire Live. This included showing one boy a pornographic video on his phone.
Jailing him for three years, Judge Julie Warburton said: "The boys had gone to Melbourne Park to play with friends, where they should have been safe. You clearly sought out and pursued contact with these young boys with a view to touching them for your own sexual gratification. I have no doubt on the evidence I saw and heard this was your intention throughout. It was done with a predatory sexual motive for your own deviant sexual pleasure."
In evidence, one victim described being "grabbed and massaged" by Ahmadzai while playing on June 15 this year. The boy said: "He came up behind me and started grabbing my belly so I pinched him to get him off me. He moved his hands up and started to massage my shoulders, digging his fingers in my collar bone, so I elbowed him and launched myself off the go-kart (I was sitting on) and headed towards the basketball court, and I called the police."
The second boy was hugged and shown "a dirty video" of adults having sex. The first boy added that Ahmadzai showed his friend "a proper dirty video saying ‘get your two friends to come and see this’. I said ‘no, I am not watching dirty stuff’."
Prosecutor Stuart Lody noted Ahmadzai's phone revealed membership in a social media app broadcasting pornographic videos. Forensic examination found his DNA on one boy's shirt, contradicting his denial of contact.
Defense lawyer Fergus Malone said Ahmadzai has no prior convictions, is in the country legally, approached a group rather than isolating a child, and the video was "very short-lived, perhaps four seconds."
Ahmadzai was placed on the sex offender register for life, given a lifetime sexual harm prevention order, and a 10-year restraining order. The boys have lifetime anonymity.