Mum jailed for enticing boy, 14, to her home and having sex with him

A MOTHER-OF-FIVE who sexually abused a vulnerable teenage boy has been jailed.

- HARRISON GALLIVEN AND ELLIE KEMP

Deborah Taylor was 33 when she began using her home as a 'doss house' to entice impressionable youngsters.

Her victim, a 14-year-old boy, would attend the property with school friends to drink and smoke cannabis.

The court heard how one night Taylor asked the boy to stay the night and sleep in her bed. This led to intercourse and they began a 'relationship.

The victim, now in his 40s, initially kept quiet but went to police in January 2020, saying: "I went back to hers after a party and effectively didn't leave for years."

In a statement, he added: "Now I can't understand why she would be interested in a relationship with an under 18-year-old. I have spent the last few years regretting everything that happened to me. I was robbed of a childhood. I feel depressed and question myself all the time now. I was just a boy and she knew it was wrong. I was vulnerable and she took full advantage of this."

Now Taylor, of Thomasson Close, Bolton, is 62 and a grandmother.