Dawlish News
The son of a caravan park manager has denied molesting two young boys while they were staying at the seaside resort.
Bradley Daines-Degroot is alleged to have taken the brothers to an aviary, a play area, and woodland before assaulting them on a number of occasions.
He ensured their silence by threatening to hurt them if they told anyone of his sexual assaults, Exeter Crown Court was told.
Daines-Degroot, now aged 20, was only a teenager himself at the time when he allegedly carried out the assaults between 2008 and 2011 when the brothers were aged seven to 12.
He is on the autistic spectrum and the jury have been told he is being helped to understand the case by an intermediary who sits with him in the dock.
Daines-Degroot, of Devon View, Dawlish, denies four counts of raping a child under 13 at or near the Oakcliff caravan park in Dawlish. He says he only met the boys three or four times and did not abuse them.
Mr Sean Brunton, prosecuting, said Daines-Degroot’s parents managed the caravan park and he befriended the two boys when they were staying there starting when the older was nine and the younger seven.
