A woman who worked as a care officer at a children’s home had a "relationship" with a teenage boy that lived there, a court heard.
Alysha Friel appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday after pleading guilty to six counts of being an adult abusing a position of trust by engaging in sexual activity with a boy aged between 13 and 17, and four counts of being an adult abusing a position of trust causing or inciting sexual activity with a boy aged between 13 and 17.
Callum Ross, prosecuting, detailed that in 2019, Friel, then-23, worked as a residential child care officer at a Children’s Home, and the victim was a looked after teenager at that facility. He said: “The complainant disclosed that in 2020, the complainant and the defendant began flirting with each other.
