BBC News, Essex
A person asked two 14 -year -old girls to eat pizza at the center of a city that he “wanted to have a child with them”, a court.
Hadush Kebatu of Ethiopia, after thinking about children, alleged to have “unfair comments” that she was hungry and offered her food in Essex, Essex on 7 July.
Then he returned the next day and asked one of the girls to kiss his friend, the Chelmsford Magistrate Court was told.
Mr. Kebatu, a refugee seeker who was staying at Bell Hotel in High Road, Epting, is denying two sexual offenses on testing.
He has also denied allegations of engaging a girl in sexual activity, attempting sexual harassment and harassment without violence.
Mr. Kebatu gave his date of birth in December 1986, which made him 38, but the court record has suggested that it is 41.
Opening the trial, prosecutor Stuart Cowen said the defendant approached the girls, who were sitting on the bench that was a pizza -eating bench, and “unfair comments”.
“This is a case of Crown. He said that he wanted to have a baby with each of them and tried to kiss them,” said Mr. Koven.
“He invited him back to the Bell Hotel, where he was a resident, recently came to Britain.”
Mr. Koven alleged that the girls were rejected and the girls were told that the girls were 14 years old, Mr. Kebatu replied “Age did not matter”.
He said that the girls left the area but the next day the asylum seeker was contacted.
On the occasion, it was alleged that one of the teenagers wore his school uniform.
Mr. Koven said that she became uncomfortable and when a male friend intervened, Mr. Kebatu later asked him to kiss before putting his hand on his thigh.
The prosecutor said, “She would tell the court that when the defendant was behaving in this way, he saw an erection,” the prosecutor said.
‘Astonished’
In an interview with the police, played in court, one of the girls said that Mr. Kebatu “bowed down on her lips”, “He was really eager to kiss”.
,[He said] If I come back to the hotel with him, we can make children, “he accused.
Asked how he made him feel, the girl said to an officer: “I could not really move forward, it gave me a shock. I did not know what I had to do. My mind was empty.”
Judge Christopher Williams was told to a woman whether Mr. Kebatu needed help, but, shortly after, he “sexually harassed her by placing her hand on her leg” and trying to kiss her.
Police officers were called and Mr. Kebatu was arrested, told to the court.
The allegations of the incident created a wave of anti-immigration protests and counter-demonstrations outside the Bell Hotel.
On August 19, Epping Forest District Council A high court won Temporarily blocking the site from housing shelter seekers.
It is expected to end on Wednesday, it continues.