Rapist met a vulnerable 14-year-old on Facebook before things took a 'sinister turn'

Reece Austick was 21 lured his 14-year-old unfortunate to his level successful Manchester, aft she travelled unsocial to conscionable him for the archetypal clip erstwhile helium told her helium was 15

A rapist plied a susceptible teen he’d met connected Facebook with intoxicant and cocaine earlier sexually abusing her

Reece Austick was 21 lured his 14-year-old unfortunate to his level successful Manchester, aft she travelled unsocial to conscionable him. Manchester Crown Court heard that the brace connected connected Facebook, but had ne'er met before.

Austick lied astir his age, astatine archetypal claiming helium was 15, past 17. The miss travelled to Manchester to conscionable Austick successful person. He took her backmost to his home, wherever a person of his was besides present.

Hw suggested to the miss that she should person immoderate cocaine, and she did so, authoritative Helena Williams said. She woke up to find Austick slapping her to the face.

He past proceeded to sexually maltreatment her. She remained astatine the spot for the adjacent fewer days, earlier constabulary arrived aft a missing persons study had been filed regarding the girl.

During the play successful which she had been successful the flat, Austick had besides raped her. He was arrested erstwhile constabulary arrived and denied raping the girl.

But Austick, from Salford, pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of rape and 1 number of having intersexual enactment with a child. “You befriended her connected Facebook,” Judge Patrick Field KC told the defendant.

“It’s not suggested that determination was thing evidently incorrect astir that, due to the fact that you had a communal friend. But things took a crook towards the sinister."

Speaking of the girl's clip astatine Austick's home, the justice added: “There she was plied with intoxicant and cocaine. She was a susceptible young miss whose vulnerability was selfishly exploited by you, successful my judgement, without immoderate thought oregon information for the interaction upon her of what you did to her.

“You lied astir your age. The disparity of your ages was significant.”

Austick, present 27, was sentenced to 7 years and 2 months successful prison. The tribunal heard that Austick had experienced a ‘difficult inheritance and upbringing’.

His barrister Ellie Akhgar said Austick, who has 31 erstwhile offences connected his record, was ‘no alien to custody’ but is ‘making affirmative changes’ to his life.

Detective Sergeant James Walsh, of GMP's Criminal Investigation Department successful Salford, said: "Firstly I privation to convey the unfortunate for coming guardant and reporting this atrocious ordeal to us. Austick was calculated successful his offending – helium approached his unfortunate connected societal media and knew she was a teenager. He past subjected her to appalling intersexual maltreatment implicit the people of 2 days.

"He is simply a unsafe idiosyncratic who has intentionally targeted a kid unfortunate and subjected her to horrendous abuse. I invited his lengthy sentence.

"Due to the complexities successful this case, it has taken a agelong clip to get to this point, and I privation to convey the unfortunate for her patience, courageousness and perseverance."