Jacques Iatika charged with two counts of rape of a woman on a working holiday visa

A man on a working holiday visa has been found guilty of raping another backpacker, only letting his victim leave her bedroom to make him food.

A backpacker sex-pest’s actions have left his victim fearful of returning to her family after he forced her to engage in “degrading” sex acts.

Jacques Iatika, 32, has been jailed for nine years charged with raping another backpacker in the Upper Spencer Gulf.

Iatika was arrested after entering the victim’s home and forcing her to engage in a series of sexual acts.

The Adelaide District Court heard that prior to the offence Iatika had repeatedly asked his victim for sex, which she always refused.

The court heard that after Iatika’s victim blocked his number, he would call her friends and demand they hand the phone to her in his desperate attempts to persuade her to sleep with him.

Iatika’s victim said the events had a major adverse impact on her sense of self and security

“You were, in every sense of the colloquial phrase, a sex pest,” Judge Julie Mcintyre said during sentencing.

“This would have been bad enough, but you decided to take, by force, what your victim would not agree to.”

Judge Mcintyre told the court that the victim found Iatika “uninvited” in her bedroom and immediately asked him to leave.

Iatika then told the victim “she could not go until (Iatika) was finished” a court heard.

The court heard that after the rape occurred Iatika would only agree to let the victim leave if she cooked him some food.

The victim then spoke to her housemate who asked Iatika to leave.

Judge Mcintyre told the court that Iatika told her housemate that he would only leave if the victim went with him.

“You told your victim to get into your car or you would bash her,” she said.

“You asked her for sex and she again refused, so you held her down as she was trying to fight you off.

“As you were walking, you tried to hit her and you threatened her that if she told anyone, you would both get into trouble and that you would cause her trouble on her return to her home country.”

Judge Mcintyre declined to repeat the victim’s impact statement during sentencing but said there has been a “major adverse impact on the victims sense of self and security.”

“She says it is like she is no longer herself in many ways,” Judge Mcintyre said.

“Over and above this, she has also suffered wider cultural and community repercussions that make her fearful of returning home.”

Iatika plead guilty and was sentenced to nine years and six months in jail.

A non-parole period of five years was imposed.