Teenage girl denies kissing and groping youngster

A teenage girl today (thurs) denied kissing a child and groping her breasts in a four-year campaign of sexual abuse. Maria Plasencia, 18, is also accused of encouraging the seven-year-old to touch herself sexually between 2012 and 2016. She denied two counts of sexual touching of a girl under 13 and one count of inciting sexual activity at Croydon Crown Court. Earlier prosecutor Maria Slater said the offence involved Plasencia ‘kissing the victim, and touching her breasts’ as well as…