A man is facing jail after being found guilty of abusing an eight-year-old girl.
Sam Prowse forced the girl to touch him and pulled down her trousers during the sexual assaults, a jury at Exeter Crown Court heard.
He also groomed the child by giving her money or offering to buy her toys.
His attacks terrified the girl so much she was unable to tell anyone about them for almost two years and finally made her disclosures only after a chance encounter with Prowse on a railway platform brought back traumatic memories.
Prowse claimed the allegations against him were nuts because he hates paedophiles and is disgusted by child abuse.
Prowse, 25, formerly of Barnstaple and Exeter Road, Exmouth, but now of Grebe Court, Bridgwater, Somerset, denied six counts of taking part in or inciting sexual activity with a child.
He was found guilty of five of the six counts and Judge Phillip Wassall adjourned the case for a report by probation officers which will assess if Prowse poses a danger to the public.
The judge told him: "I understand the jury's verdicts. The evidence was compelling. It seems these offences may have been more about power and control than sexual gratification.
"You are clearly going to prison. The only question is for how long. The issue is whether I have to find that you are dangerous."
The judge granted Prowse conditional bail and set the sentence date for August 4.
During a week-long trial the jury heard from the alleged victim, now aged 12, how Prowse assaulted her sexually four years ago but she was too frightened to tell anyone at the time.
She said she only revealed what he had done when she saw him by chance at Exeter St David's railway station in December 2011.
Prowse said all the allegations were untrue.
He said: "I never did anything. It is nuts what people are saying about me. When I was told about the allegations I was just sick and the things they were trying to say.
"I did not answer all the questions in my police interview because it was all too much for me and my brief advised me not to say anything."
