A soccer coach who "conducted a campaign of sexual abuse" against a young girl for three years, leaving her feeling suicidal, has been jailed for six years.
Quantity surveyor and former accountant Robert Davis, 42, (pictured) of Denning Avenue, Waddon began molesting the youngster in March, 2007 when she was only twelve years-old.
He forced her to give distressing evidence at Croydon Crown Court, where after a nine-day trial the jury convicted him of six counts of sexual activity with a child and three counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
The offences took place at an address in Harewood Gardens, South Croydon where Davis performed sex acts on the girl and forced her to perform sex acts on him.
The charges were sample counts reflecting numerous assaults, which at their peak occurred weekly.
During the trial he claimed victim, who once tried to kill herself as a result of the abuse, had invented the allegations, but during his probation interview accepted his responsibility.
"Over a three-year period you conducted a campaign of sexual abuse against that young girl, committing a variety of sexual offences," Judge Daniel Flahive told Davis.
"We know you were keen to work with the girl's football team and as she grew older you became more sexually attracted to her.
"Some of the evidence she gave was in graphic detail and at times she cried and we heard she got to the stage where she wanted to kill herself.
"She did attempt suicide and showed us where she had marked her arms with a pair of scissors or a razor," added the judge.
"She was put through mental anguish and you told her at one point it was: 'Our little secret."
Davis will complete an additional two years on licence when released from prison and an indefinite Sexual Offences Prevention Order was made restricting his future contact with children aged under sixteen year-old.
He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for an indefinite period.
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