Woman who 'sold' 13-year-old's virginity escapes jail Last updated at 15:43 22 May 2007
An international porn star who tried to sell a schoolgirl's virginity to a wealthy businessman for £30,000 has escaped jail. Fleur Brown, who boasted holding the 2003 European "Gang Bang Trophy", spent weeks negotiating the deal she hoped would pay for a new car. The woman, eager to prostitute the 13-year-old's innocence for as big a pay-off as possible, also wanted to clear a string of debts incurred by a breast enhancement operation in Thailand. London's Snaresbrook Crown Court heard the woman, a regular at the porn industry's annual answer to the Oscars in Las Vegas, first broached the idea after an American porn film producer offered to make a film about her sordid career. Alison Hunter, prosecuting, said the girl's involvement was initially limited to playing a young version of Brown in the film. But when the project appeared to stall, the porn star suggested making money by selling the youngster's virginity. A national newspaper learnt of her offer and got an undercover reporter, posing as a wealthy businessman's representative interested in having sex with the girl, to contact her. Brown assured him: "You'd love her ... she's going to break some hearts when she's a bit older. She's very broad-minded." Referring to the child as her "friend" and little realising she was being secretly filmed, she added: "She's thinking about going ahead and taking the first step anyway and I said to her you know when you're ready to take the next step ... how do you feel about doing some business? Wouldn't it make sense to get paid an awful lot of money for it?" As the discussions continued, Brown, who also worked as £50-an-hour escort girl, confessed to having frequently supplied the girl with crack cocaine, and said she could easily get some for the child's would-be lover. Eventually Brown agreed to take the youngster to a luxury hotel for the "transaction". But instead of the businessman and the five-figure "sale price" she was so eagerly looking forward to, the police turned up instead. Brown, of Goldhanger Road, Heybridge, Maldon, Essex, pleaded guilty to one count of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence in December, 2004, and one of possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply. Bespectacled Brown remained impassive as Judge Timothy King told her that normally the serious offences she had committed would "justify" immediate imprisonment. But in the two-and-a-half years since then there had been a "significant turnaround" in her life. "First of all there seems to have been a re-think by you on the way you were leading life in the past, not only the drugs but also the type of work in which you were engaged. "I'm told you have now left behind your work as a porn actress. That bodes well for the future... Moreover, you have managed to put behind you your drug habit. You have secured employment and you are holding that employment down."
Last updated at 15:43 22 May 2007
An international porn star who tried to sell a schoolgirl's virginity to a wealthy businessman for £30,000 has escaped jail.
Fleur Brown, who boasted holding the 2003 European "Gang Bang Trophy", spent weeks negotiating the deal she hoped would pay for a new car.
The woman, eager to prostitute the 13-year-old's innocence for as big a pay-off as possible, also wanted to clear a string of debts incurred by a breast enhancement operation in Thailand.
London's Snaresbrook Crown Court heard the woman, a regular at the porn industry's annual answer to the Oscars in Las Vegas, first broached the idea after an American porn film producer offered to make a film about her sordid career.
Alison Hunter, prosecuting, said the girl's involvement was initially limited to playing a young version of Brown in the film.
But when the project appeared to stall, the porn star suggested making money by selling the youngster's virginity.
A national newspaper learnt of her offer and got an undercover reporter, posing as a wealthy businessman's representative interested in having sex with the girl, to contact her.
Brown assured him: "You'd love her ... she's going to break some hearts when she's a bit older. She's very broad-minded."
Referring to the child as her "friend" and little realising she was being secretly filmed, she added: "She's thinking about going ahead and taking the first step anyway and I said to her you know when you're ready to take the next step ... how do you feel about doing some business? Wouldn't it make sense to get paid an awful lot of money for it?"
As the discussions continued, Brown, who also worked as £50-an-hour escort girl, confessed to having frequently supplied the girl with crack cocaine, and said she could easily get some for the child's would-be lover.
Eventually Brown agreed to take the youngster to a luxury hotel for the "transaction".
But instead of the businessman and the five-figure "sale price" she was so eagerly looking forward to, the police turned up instead.
Brown, of Goldhanger Road, Heybridge, Maldon, Essex, pleaded guilty to one count of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence in December, 2004, and one of possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply.
Bespectacled Brown remained impassive as Judge Timothy King told her that normally the serious offences she had committed would "justify" immediate imprisonment.
But in the two-and-a-half years since then there had been a "significant turnaround" in her life.
"First of all there seems to have been a re-think by you on the way you were leading life in the past, not only the drugs but also the type of work in which you were engaged.
"I'm told you have now left behind your work as a porn actress. That bodes well for the future... Moreover, you have managed to put behind you your drug habit. You have secured employment and you are holding that employment down."
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