Footballer Adam Johnson appeared in court today to defend
his two count charge of sexual penetration with an underage girl today, but his
girlfriend and mother of his child Stacey Flaunders refused to follow the
sacked Sunderland player to court.
Stacy walked out of the court sitting on Friday when
sexually intimating Whatsapp messages between her partner and the under age
girl were read out loud in court by the prosecuting attorney.
The accuser, the under age girl who the police have refused
to reveal her identity testified against the footballer in a recorded video
interview and says she was ready for what could happen between her and the
footballer although it was wrong.
Asked how she felt, the girl said: 'As much as I expected it
to happen, I was a bit shocked it had. I sort of knew I had done something
wrong.'
She added: 'It wasn't that I didn't want it or anything. I
just knew it was wrong.'
'I got a message from Sunderland player Adam Johnson who I'd
idolised for quite a while.'
The girl said that, after exchanging messages, she first
met-up with Johnson on January 17 last year when he signed two Sunderland
shirts for her.
She then explained how the player continued to message her,
talking about getting a 'thank you kiss'.
'I was well up for it. It was a surreal type of thing,' she
told the police officer. 'I met up with him again. I gave him his thank you
kiss and more,' she said.
The girl described how Johnson exchanged WhatsApp messages
with her after their first meeting, saying 'you owe me for this' and 'am I
going to get a thank you kiss?'.
The teenager said that at the second meeting, in the
player's Range Rover, Johnson said to her: 'I've come for my thank you kiss.'
She said that she eventually told him 'go on then', and they
began kissing.
The girl said: 'I was kissing him for quite a while.'
'He undid the button on my trousers. It took him a while to
do that,' she said. 'He got his hand down my trousers. He started to put his
hands in my knickers.'
The girl then described to the officer further sexual
activity between the pair.
Later in the interview, the police officer asked the girl
what Johnson knew about her.
She replied that the player knew how old she was, what
school year she was in and where she sat at Sunderland matches. She said
Johnson also knew her date of birth.
She said: 'He asked me when I was 16.'
Johnson has already admitted one count of sexual activity
with a child and another of meeting a child following sexual grooming.
The one-time England midfielder is accused of abusing 'his
revered position in society' when he had sexual contact with the teenager 'in a
way that he knew was both morally and legally wrong'.
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