The 21-year-old woman is found guilty of sexual assault after she cheated on a nearsighted teenage girl
A woman accused of posing as a man to sexually assault a teenage girl has been found guilty of kissing today.
Georgia Bilham, 21, had been accused 17 times of sexually assaulting the 19-year-old during a relationship in which she had a deep Birmingham accent.
But it took a jury just three hours to throw out all the charges except the first one that took place the night they first kissed.
Bilham, 21, was told by judge Michael Leeming that she would be sentenced on July 19, but that she would immediately be placed on the sex offender registry.
The judge also ordered a pre-judgment report for his final; sentence and warned her that jail time could still be an option.
Georgia Bilham, 21, (pictured today outside Chester Crown Court) faced 17 charges of sexually assaulting the 19-year-old during a relationship in which she had a deep Birmingham accent
It took a jury just three hours to throw out all the charges except the first one that took place the night they first kissed. Today Georgia Bilham is in the picture
The court heard how Bilham, who claimed not to have gotten any sexual satisfaction from the relationship, misled her victim into thinking she was a young man after they began posting online.
They eventually met, and when their relationship turned sexual, the girl still believed Bilham was a boy, according to the prosecution.
On two occasions when they met, the girl said, she felt a kind of “hard willy figure” through George’s clothes.
Bilham was only bummed when the girl’s mother became suspicious and told her George was a girl, causing her daughter to “break into tears.”
The girl – who cannot be named for legal reasons – then discovered that George was actually Bilham after investigating her identity on social media. She felt “sick” when she found out the truth, the court heard, after telling detectives she was not gay.
The prosecution said the girl could not fully consent to the sexual activity because she thought George was really a man.
They labeled Bilham “an accomplished liar” who tricked her alleged victim into a sexual relationship by creating the character of George Parry.
Bilham admitted she pretended to be George, but said she got caught up in a “web of lies.” She admitted having sexual activity with the girl, but claimed the teen knew she was female.
Bilham, 21, (pictured last Thursday) was told by judge Michael Leeming that she would be sentenced on July 19, but would immediately be placed on the sex offender registry
She claimed that her elaborate lies throughout the relationship were to hide the fact that she was Georgia Bilham – not to try and trick the girl into having sex thinking she was a boy.
Bilham denied ever putting anything in her underwear to mimic a penis and claimed that her alleged victim had sometimes kept her glasses on when they met.
She created a fake Snapchat profile for one George Parry, using the photo of a boy with spiky blonde hair she knew at school as an “escape” because she wasn’t happy with herself, the court heard.
Her relationship with the girl has been described as “love-hate” and sometimes “toxic.”
Bilham, who described herself as a bit of a “tomboy” growing up, said she had never wanted to change gender and become a boy and had always thought of herself as straight.
Her attorney Martine Snowdon told the jury that the teen knew “George” was really a woman, but she continued the relationship.
“There’s no doubt Georgia Bilham lied about who she was, but they both knew it was fiction,” Ms Snowdon said.
One evening in May 2021, the jury heard, Bilham was driving around with the girl in her mother’s Ford Focus when it crashed into a hedge.
When police arrived, the girl heard officers give her real name ‘George’ and Bilham said she believed the girl knew from then on that she was actually a woman.
The jury heard how the girl confronted her after learning who “he” really was.
In one message she wrote: “Admit you got caught, I know more than enough now.”
Bilham replied, “I don’t even dress like a boy, it just took over my life.”
Judge Michael Leeming released Bilham on bail before sentencing on July 19, but warned her it was “not an indication” that a custodial sentence would not be imposed.