A FATHER who made innapropriate remarks and indecently assaulted a schoolgirl has been ordered to sign the sex offenders register.

Kulbinder Kumar had approached the 16-year-old girl at a bus stop in Worcester as she was waiting to meet a friend to go to school.

He was pushing his young daughter in a pram and stopped at the bus stop on Tuesday, September 9, last year at about 7.40am.

Matt Dodson, prosecuting, told the court Kumar that had started to speak to the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and asked her for her phone number.

“He asked her to go with him to take his daughter to the nursery,” said Mr Dodson.

“She said she didn’t want to go as she needed to go to school.”

Mr Dodson said Kumar then made innappropriate remarks to the girl.

“He went to hug and kiss her,” said Mr Dodson.

“He placed his arms around her.”

When the girl, who was shaken by the incident, arrived at school she reported it to a teacher who then told the police.

She was able to give information to officers about the age of his daughter and what he looked like.

They then were able to trace her by visiting nurseries in the area.

Kumar, aged 26, of Leeds Old Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire, who had an ex-partner in Worcester, was arrested almost a month later.

Kumar had denied the charge of sexual assault on a female, but was found guilty after a trial last month.

He had told police he had been in Worcester to take his daughter to nursery and had been at the bus stop to shelter from the rain.

“He said he wasn’t chatting her up and she wasn’t chatting him up,” said Mr Dodson.

The warehouse worker from Bradford was told by Worcester magistrates that he must complete a community order for three years.

He was also given a supervision requirement and a requirement to complete the sex offenders programme.

Kumar will also have to be on the sex offenders register for five years, and was ordered to pay £300 in compensation and £500 towards court costs.