Sean Rector: Northern Beaches man convicted for rape
An American who raped a crying woman in her northern beaches home tried to explain his actions as a ‘miscommunication’. His brave victim told of the trauma she had endured as the 27-year-old has handed his punishment.
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An American man who raped a crying, menstruating woman inside her own home following a sexual encounter tried to explain his actions as “miscommunication”, a court has heard.
Sean Rector, 27, had been living on the northern beaches when he met the victim on October 1, 2017.
At the first date the woman said she enjoyed being dominated sexually, the District Court heard, with a number of consensual sex acts taking place between the pair in the following weeks.
One night the woman, who had been diagnosed with endometritis, refused Rector’s sexual advances as she was menstruating which meant the intercourse would be painful. She ultimately relented but the consensual sex ended swiftly because of the pain.
The court heard the next morning the victim woke to Rector touching her genitalia and making sexual advances. The woman said no.
Rector said he would masturbate but soon removed the victim’s tampon, threw it on the floor and penetrated the woman.
“She said no,” Judge Nicole Noman said. “She buried her head in the pillow and she cried and she said no.”
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The court heard at one point, Rector asked the victim if she was okay and she again said no, but he continued the rape which only ended once he had ejaculated.
The court heard Rector described the incident in a phone call days later as “miscommunication”.
In an emotional victim impact statement read out to the court, the woman spoke of the guilt she did not follow through with a formal statement once reporting the rape to police, which saw Rector jailed for assaulting his next two female partners. He was convicted of four counts of common assault and one count of common assault occasioning actual bodily harm with all offences taking place after the rape.
“I know I will carry this guilt forever,” she said.
The woman spoke of the internal trauma Rector’s criminal actions had caused, how she distrusted men, had left two jobs, isolated herself socially and felt like she was being constantly judged.
The court heard Rector had a troubled upbringing in California before leaving the family home as a 17-year-old and cutting ties with his parents.
The 27-year-old was sentenced to a five-year jail term, with a non-parole period of three years. He will be eligible for release on parole in February 2023 and is likely to be deported to America.