A 21-year-old woman has been accused of sexually assaulting eight girls and three women in public places.

Emily Sweetland is alleged to have committed the offences between Wednesday and Saturday last week.

The first assaults are alleged to have happened in Minster, Thanet, when two teenage girls were reportedly touched sexually without their consent.

Two days later, in Canterbury, five girls aged between 12 and 15 were said to have been assaulted by Sweetland, with some of the offences reportedly taking place in Rose Lane and at Canterbury West railway station.

A sixth alleged victim, aged 16 or over, was also said to have been targeted.

Sweetland was arrested on Saturday evening following alleged sexual assaults in Ramsgate on three more victims - one a 13-year-old girl and two women aged 16 or over.

On the same day, Sweetland, of Warten Road, Ramsgate, is alleged to have used threatening, abusive or insulting words to a woman in Canterbury. She denied the charge when she appeared before Maidstone magistrates on Monday.

She did not enter a plea to the 11 other offences and was remanded in custody to appear at Canterbury Crown Court later this month.

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