A 35-year-old man with prior convictions for child sexual abuse has been sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a 17-year-old girl who was temporarily homeless at the time.
A man who raped a teenage girl after a New Year's Eve party has been jailed for seven years. The 35-year-old was sent forward from the District Court to the Central Criminal Court on signed guilty pleas to one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault on January 1st, 2023. The court heard the then 17-year-old girl, her sister and mother were temporarily staying at the home of their mother’s partner after becoming homeless a few months earlier.
The man is a nephew of the girl’s mother’s partner and was also living in the same house. He cannot be identified to protect his victim’s anonymity. The Central Criminal Court heard that the man has four previous convictions for defilement of a child under 17, a female cousin, for which he received a sentence of 3½ years in 2018. The court was told that the man first sexually assaulted the victim in a car on the way back from a New Year's Eve party. The girl’s mother, her partner and another woman were also in the car at the time. The girl did not say anything when they arrived home and went to bed. She’d had some drinks at the party and was drifting in and out of sleep when the man sexually assaulted her twice more, then raped her. Reading her impact statement, the young woman told the man: “You have not only hurt me, but ruined me.” She said the man’s actions also affected her family, many of whom blamed themselves because they were asleep in the house when the rape occurred. The victim said she is in therapy and has experienced nightmares, sleepless nights and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder
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