A 13-YEAR-OLD girl was targeted for sex by a mobile phone shop employee after she took her broken phone into the store to be fixed, a court heard.

Tauseef Bux, aged 22, took the youngster’s details when her handset could not be fixed immediately.

Bolton Crown Court heard he later contacted her by phone and text, and she also phoned and texted him.

Bux worked at the Fone Warehouse shop and internet cafe in Daubhill.

Karen Brooks, prosecuting, told the court: “The defendant called her and told her she was sexy and fit. He asked about her age and she said she was 13 and he said he was 16.”

The court was told the girl would go into the shop and talk to Bux when he asked her to.

A few weeks later, in summer, 2009, she was in the shop with a friend.

Bux asked her to go downstairs with him to the basement where there was a toilet.

He asked her to go into the toilet and perform a sex act on him, but she refused, became upset and went back to the shop area.

The girl’s mother heard her talking on the phone about the incident and contacted police.

Bux, of Gaythorne Street, Astley Bridge, pleaded guilty to causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

The court heard he no longer works at the store.

Judge Timothy Clayson gave him a three-year community order including supervision.

He must attend a sex offenders’ programme and remain on the sex offenders’ register for five years.