A TEENAGER racially abused an 11-year-old girl as she left a shop buying bread for her mother.
Scott Hunt, 18, appeared to be angry when he asked the girl "What are you looking at?" and used a racist term, Derby Crown Court was told.
The girl became scared and ran back into the shop and asked if she could be let out of the back, said prosecutor Edna Leonard.
She said: "When he was interviewed, he admitted he had some problems with this young girl's mother but no issues with her."
The court heard that Hunt also assaulted a woman in a different incident.
Miss Leonard said a group of teenagers, which included Hunt, had been causing a disturbance and that police had been called.
Miss Leonard said: "The woman then saw this defendant try to climb into her garden. She told him not to.
"The next thing she knew was she'd been hit and was on the ground dazed."
The woman suffered cuts and bruises, swelling to the left side of her face and a cut to her head.
Hunt, of Brailsford Road, Chaddesden, told police the woman had been rude to him and he had pushed her.
In court, he admitted committing a racially aggravated public order offence on December 8 last year, and common assault on April 27.
He also pleaded guilty to breaching a youth rehabilitation order.
Handing Hunt a new order for 18 months, Judge Jonathan Gosling said: "It's always serious to breach a court order.
"It's the more serious if you breach it by committing crimes. But I have to balance it by the things in your favour.
"You managed 12 months on the order and were doing quite well on it before you committed these offences.
"You are also in work. I think you are in a critical time in your life."
Hunt must abide by a four-month curfew between 9pm and 6am.
Emma Cuverley, in mitigation, said: "There has been a lot of disruption in his life.
"He has been living between Derby and Norfolk. He is now back in Derby and living with his partner. He is doing well on an apprenticeship."
