A man has been jailed for two years and six months for sex offending that left a 12-year-old girl "withdrawn, angry, and extremely self-conscious".
The girl's mother described the effects of the offending by James Christopher Middleditch, who touched the girl while she slept.
Christchurch District Court Judge Paul Kellar told him: "Offending of this nature affects everyone profoundly and for a long term."
He reduced the jail term for Middleditch's admissions to the police at his first interview, his early guilty pleas, and his remorse and steps towards rehabilitation.