This is Plymouth -- A 21-YEAR-OLD man who had sex with an underage girl has been jailed for more than three years. George Henry Freeman took advantage of the 15-year-old when she was too drunk to resist, Plymouth Crown Court heard. Judge Paul Darlow jailed him for three years and four months. He told Freeman he "absolutely knew" the age of the complainant. Judge Darlow said: "Not only was she vulnerable because of her age but also because she was drunk to the point of insensibility. "You took advantage of her when she was totally powerless to resist." Freeman, of Holloway Gardens, Plymstock, admitted sexual activity with a child on November 1, 2012. Kelly Scrivener, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said the DNA was found on the girl's body. She added the sexual intercourse had been unprotected. The court heard Freeman had received police warnings for the same offence in 2008 and 2009, when he was 16 or 17. Nick Lewin, for Freeman, urged the judge not to send him to prison for what he called his "drunken mistake". He said: "To an extent it would also be right to view this as a drunken mistake by the victim." Mr Lewin added Freeman was 20 at the time of the offence. He said sending him to prison would achieve nothing, but sex offender treatment was more likely to stop him committing crime. Mr Lewin said: "Common sense says that the right thing to do, in my submission, would be to put him in a position where he can get on with his life without causing harm to any individual in the future." Judge Darlow said he thought custody was appropriate. But he added that if he suspended a prison sentence it was likely to be sent to appeal.
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