Jennifer O’Brien, 34, who has tens of thousands of followers using her TikTok handle Jennifer Nieve
A TikTok star with tens of thousands of followers has been jailed for raping a woman ‘at least 10 times,’ leaving her living with ‘fear.’
Jennifer O’Brien, 34, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for sexual and violent offences committed against the victim.
Manchester Crown Court heard the content creator, who is known as Jennifer Nieve with 15,000 followers on TikTok, transitioned from a man to a woman. The defendant raped the victim despite her making it clear she did not want sex. The defendant would become ‘aggressive’ if the victim did not comply, The Mirror reports.
Referred to as ‘Jordan O’Brien aka Jennifer Nieve’ in court documents, the defendant was found guilty after a five-day trial last year. She was convicted of rape, assault by penetration, threatening with an offensive weapon and another serious offence.
The judge, Recorder Tim Harrington, said the rape charge was on the basis that no fewer than 10 rapes had been committed. He said: “I have to sentence you for at least 10 occasions that you raped her. This was repeated offending.”
In a statement read on her behalf, the victim told how she suffered from panic attacks and anxiety as a result of her ordeal with the impact “deeply damaging”, reported the Manchester Evening News.
She said: “I don’t sleep for very long, and I’m up at all hours of the night. If I am in a group of more than five people I suffer from anxiety.
“The impact has been long term and deeply damaging. I have lived for years with fear and anxiety.”
Defending, Dan Calder said: “The strongest feature available to Jennifer O’Brien in mitigation is her previous good character.” He said that O’Brien ‘does not agree with the verdicts returned by the jury’, but recognised it was the judge’s ‘public duty’ to pass sentence.
Mr Calder said the defendant is ‘highly likely’ to be suffering from ‘complex PTSD’ and has a ‘history of trauma’. He said O’Brien had spent two years on bail and had been observing an electronically monitored curfew, which would count towards the overall sentence.
O’Brien, of no fixed address, was ordered to serve two-thirds of her 17-year prison sentence in custody.