Mother of girl ‘duped by woman pretending to be boy’ tells sex assault trial she realised the truth
Sobbing mother of teen girl ‘duped into sex by woman pretending to be a boy named George’ tells assault charges she didn’t realize the truth until she wrote down everything she knew about the suspect in a ‘spider diagram’
- Georgia Bilham, 21, denies 17 sex offenses after allegedly cheating on a teenager
- The court heard that Bilham cheated on the 19-year-old by posing as a man named George
The mother of a teen who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a woman posing as a man sobbed in court when she described how she worked out the true gender of her daughter’s partner.
Georgia Bilham, 21, is charged with 17 sex offenses after allegedly cheating on a 19-year-old girl by posing as a man.
A lawsuit at Chester Crown Court has learned that she posed online as George Parry, a Birmingham man, and wore a hood while meeting her short-sighted victim – she claimed to be ‘paranoid’ due to involvement with Albanian gang members.
The complainant’s mother said that after meeting ‘George’ she had a ‘really nasty feeling’ in her stomach. Yesterday, she revealed that she drew a spider diagram to compile everything she knew about “him.”
It included “George” using an emoji to cover his face in photos posted to Snapchat, a bracelet that was always in his car, and a bank card in Georgia Bilham’s name that her daughter had found.
Suspect Georgia Bilham, 21, denies 17 sex offenses after allegedly cheating on teen
The court has heard that Georgia Bilham misled a 19-year-old woman by posing as a man
Yesterday she witnessed and said, “I was like ‘oh my God, oh my God, it’s a girl, George is Georgia’ and I felt all sick.”
She was asked by Judge Michael Leeming if she wanted a break after sobbing on the witness stand. She chose to continue with her testimony, telling the court she spoke to her daughter the next day.
She said her daughter told her that “George” couldn’t be a woman because she “felt something in his pants.”
But she said the alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, then spoke to someone else and learned that the person she was meeting with was Bilham.
When asked how it affected her, the victim’s mother said, “She felt sick, she wouldn’t eat, she wouldn’t sleep, she was in my bed. She was in crisis.’
The mother said that “George” had stayed at their house about four times and she knew when he had stayed because the toilet seat was open.
Georgia Bilham left Chester Crown Court yesterday
Earlier, the court was told that Bilham had sent text messages (shown above) to the alleged victim
She said the last time she met “George,” he brought her a hot chocolate, with his hood up, and he shuddered when he put the drink down.
She said she later entered her daughter’s bedroom and found the couple sitting in the room in pitch darkness with the blinds drawn.
She last saw him when he went to move his car, she told the court.
“I was watching because I had this weird feeling in my stomach, so I was watching to see how George would react to me,” she said.
“As soon as he saw me looking, he pulled his hood over his face and tilted his head to one side.”
The woman said her daughter told her that “George” kept his hood up because of social anxiety.
She added: “I asked her if she did sexual things with George and she said yes.
“I said ‘with his hood up?” And she said “yes” and I thought “bit strange”.’
In a message sent after being confronted with her real identity, Bilham told the complainant that she hated herself for what she had done and wanted to end it but ‘didn’t know how’.
She added, “I don’t even dress like a boy, it just took over my life.”
‘It was [a] stupid, stupid, stupid mistake that shouldn’t have happened.’
Bilham, from Alpraham, Cheshire, denies nine assault charges and eight counts of penetrative assault.
The process continues.