Teen rapist with history of violent sex offending dresses in military like attire and poses with guns

*** WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT*** A rapist described as narcissistic, manipulative and a grandiose liar with a ‘seriously concerning’ history of violent sex acts told his victim he was an Afghanistan war veteran who had killed people, including a teen boy.

The teenager has been jailed for his offences.

A teen rapist described as narcissistic, manipulative and a grandiose liar with a ‘seriously concerning’ history of violent sex acts told his victim he was an Afghanistan war veteran who had killed people, including a teen boy.

The defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced this week in Rockhampton District Court after pleading guilty to one count of rape, one of trespass and one of making a recording in breach of privacy.

Clinicians who have assessed the defendant believe he is at moderate risk of reoffending in a sexually violent way.

Judge Jeff Clarke said the defendant, 17 at the time of the offence, lied and told his family he had a job at the Gold Coast.

The defendant and his family moved to the glitter strip, with their residence near the victim’s.

The court heard the defendant’s family did not know their son had commenced an online relationship with the victim, 23, before they relocated to the Gold Coast, and that he was sneaking out to see the young woman for weeks before the rape and trespass offences.

The relationship itself only lasted a few weeks.

The court heard the defendant told the victim he was a returned serviceman, aged 19, who had served in Afghanistan and “had killed a number of people including a 14-year-old boy in that conflict”.

“You told her you loved her soon after meeting her,” Judge Clarke said.

“You took screenshots of images that she had sent to you on Snapchat.

“You recorded her in her underwear without her knowledge.

“You bragged to other people about having sex with her and you showed her explicit videos of your past girlfriends.

“You also concerningly showed her CCTV footage that depicted her driveway and the front of her house. It’s not been explained how that came about.”

The court heard the defendant would dress up in military-style uniforms and pose for photographs, which he shared, of himself with guns or gel blasters.

“At one stage, you apparently produced some elaborate documentation which claimed that you could access other people’s telephones as if you had some sort of security clearance or the like,” Judge Clarke said.

“As to the actual offences, you filmed her without her consent or knowledge while she was performing a consensual sex act.

“You refused her understandable request to delete that footage.”

The next day, during consensual sex, the victim asked the defendant to stop sex in a particular position that was hurting her.

The defendant refused, saying she could “take it” and raped her for five minutes.

Two days later, a family member of the victim approached the defendant about the fact the defendant was showing other people photos he had taken of the victim in her underwear.

His response was to enter the victim’s house, self-harm, call an ambulance, proceed to send the victim a photograph of his damaged arm and ask her to be with him.

Judge Clarke said what the defendant did was “an absolutely monstrous thing”, made worse by the fact it was a domestic violence offence and his “thorough lack of empathy and remorse”.

A presentence report provided to the court for the rape sentence outlined the defendant’s “unusual preoccupation and sexual interest” on an assessment by the Griffith Youth Forensic Service.

That report and another was provided to Judge Jeff Clarke with “some quite troubling information” about the defendant.

“In summary, you have been socially isolated since a child of only eight years of age, from other children of your similar peerage,” he said.

“You are prone to lie, exaggerate and just make things up.

“You are manipulative and narcissistic and you speak about yourself and tell stories about yourself in quite a grandiose way.

“Your past behaviour and your behaviour here makes the clinicians who assessed you think that you are a moderate risk of reoffending in a sexually violent way.

“And that may be thought to be a high risk if you have influence over a vulnerable victim or partner.

“Or if you have access to someone where there is a power imbalance that operates in your favour – that is in the absence of any intensive interventions to treat the way your brain works.”

Judge Clarke said there had not been an assessment on the defendant’s current relationship he reported he had been in for five months.

The court heard the defendant had not told his new girlfriend about the facts of this rape charge.

“That worries me,” Judge Clarke said.

“From a very young age, you have acted inappropriately towards others, according to the information in the report.

“You’ve been violent and rough with other children.

“At the age of only 11, dry humping other kids at school.

“You often lied to your parents, teachers in your school, friends or peers.

“There have been numerous unexplained absences from home.

“There have been allegations of inappropriate touch of girls when you did cadets or at school.

“There was sexting by you or sending and trying to receive intimate pictures from other schoolchildren electronically.

“You acquired an interest in online pornography from a very young age, which no doubt has led to a distortion in your views about sexuality and about appropriate sexual boundaries.

“As a child, you were assessed as meeting the diagnosis for autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

“The child and youth mental health service could not provide ongoing support for you for those conditions.

“You also experience learning difficulties and the combination of all that and your other behaviours towards other children led you to moving from mainstream school to vocational training, as I understand it, a couple of years ago.

“You have also disclosed drug using, including previous marijuana and other dangerous drugs misuse.”

The defendant was dealt with in March 2021 for a common assault where he forced his girlfriend to sit on a seat while he forcibly kissed her.

Judge Clarke placed the defendant on a two-year probation order with the condition he comply with the Griffith Youth Forensic Service treatment plan.

He also sentenced him to 18 months detention, immediately suspended upon his compliance with a conditional release order for three months.

The court heard the defendant now lives and works in the Whitsundays.