Gemma Baker – Leicester

A woman who repeatedly sexually abused a six-year-old girl has been jailed after a Facebook comment about another paedophile prompted her victim to come forward.

Gemma Baker, 42, had complained online that a paedophile had not been given a long enough prison sentence. Her victim recognised the hypocrisy because Baker had abused her when she was a child.

The victim, now an adult, sent Baker a message saying: “You are lucky it is not you doing a prison sentence.” After learning that Baker had children of her own, she reported the abuse to Leicestershire Police.

Baker, of Leicester, was convicted by a jury at Leicester Crown Court on 29 October 2026 of 10 counts of gross indecency with a child. The offences took place between 1999 and 2004, when her victim was aged between six and 11.

The following day, Judge Timothy Spencer KC sentenced Baker to six years in prison.

During the trial, prosecutor Nicholas Corsellis KC told the jury that the victim had tried to put what happened behind her before reporting Baker in 2021.

In a video interview shown to the court, the victim recalled one attack in which Baker touched her underneath her nightclothes. She said she was crying and told Baker she was hurting her, but Baker ignored her.

The victim said Baker never spoke about the incidents or told her to keep quiet. She believed Baker knew she had been too frightened to tell anyone.