THE schoolgirl victim of a sex attacker has received just £10 of a £200 compensation payment ordered by the courts, her disgusted family claim.
In October, Matthew Smith was ordered to pay £30 a week to the 12-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, after admitting indecently assaulting her.
But her furious parents say the 19-year-old, who was put on the sex offenders' register for five years, has added insult to injury by paying just £10 in total to his traumatised victim.
They say their daughter has had therapy, keeps breaking down in tears at school and is struggling to come to terms with the aftermath of the attack.
"Matthew Smith assaulted my daughter in the woods back in July and was told to pay a pittance of £200 compensation," said the girl's father.
"But, when we rang the court's financial department to check the £200 owed from Monday, November 5, was on its way, we were told he'd paid just £10. It's a bloody joke."
Droitwich magistrates heard how, in July, Smith had already befriended the girl and her friends - aged between 12 and 16 - after moving to Worcester earlier this year.
He claimed he had been "egged on" by the group in Nunnery Wood before clearing a space in the leaves for his victim to lie on and undoing her jeans.
When the girl panicked and tried to stop him, he pulled her on top of him and gave her a love bite.
The next day Smith, of Liverpool Road, Ronkswood - who was also sentenced to an 18-month community rehabilitation order - waited outside her school and became upset when she said she did not want to go out with him.
The court heard that she admitted being confused during the incident and scared when she saw him outside school, not understanding why a boy of 19 would want to go out with her.
Since the assault, her mum claims, the "people's person" she used to know had been replaced with a "very wary" young girl.
"She bathes three times a day and, even though she's top of her class, she's been seen crying at school by her teachers," she said.
"She's had therapy and wants to get on with her life but he's ruined it for her."
"When it comes to the compensation, it's the principal that counts."
The enforcement section at Kidderminster court financial department said it was unable to give out financial details.
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