'Cultural differences' led to migrant sexually assaulting child at UK train station
A SOMALIAN migrant brought through the courts for molesting a child at a train station doesn't think he did anything wrong due to 'cultural differences', a court heard.
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A Somalian migrant believes a sexual assault was not wrong due to cultural differences
Ali
Abdullahi, 34, tried to kiss a 15-year-old girl on a station platform,
lunged at a female passenger on a train journey and made an approach at
another woman.
But despite pleading guilty to
two counts of sexual assault the security guard, who came to Britain in
2011, still has trouble admitting he did anything wrong, a court heard.
He told police he came from a conservative culture and doesn't grasp the sexual boundary between men and women in the UK.
But
his mitigation was rejected by a judge on Friday who said the offences
could not be put down to cultural differences and were simply sexually
motivated.
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Abdullahi
was given a community order and told to attend a sex offender course to
improve his conduct with women following the offences, which took place
in December 2013.
Exeter Crown Court heard
Abdullahi approached a 15-year-old girl at Torquay train station, Devon,
and "behaved completely inappropriately".
You behaved completely inappropriately towards he
Judge Graham Cottle said: "She was probably very frightened.
"Later that day you approached another slightly older victim who got on the train travelling towards Bristol Temple Meads.
"You behaved completely inappropriately towards her.
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One victim made no complaint of physical contact but had been left worried by his conversation
"The sex offending was not of the most serious kind but would have been extremely frightening to both girls."
Abdullahi
then approached a third woman, a student, at the station in Bristol.
She made no complaint of physical contact but had been left worried by
his conversation.
Adrian Chaplin, mitigating,
said Abdullahi comes from Somalia but came to Britain via Kenya in 2011,
and has a wife who is currently living in Ethiopia.
At
the time of the offences he had been tired after a day at work and felt
frustrated as he was trying to "establish a rapport" with the females,
Mr Chaplin said.
He added: "There is work to be
done in terms of him being frank with himself and understanding the
different levels of acceptable conduct.
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