Cobram’s Adrian Thompson sentenced for sexually penetrating young girl

A young girl raped by a Cobram father “still feels his hands” on her more almost two years after the horrific incident.

Adrian Thompson was jailed for two years and five months for raping a young girl in Cobram last year.

A 15-year-old girl who was sexually penetrated by a young Cobram father still feels her attacker’s hands on her “no matter how many times” she washes her body in the shower, a court has heard.

Adrian Anthony Thompson, 29, was jailed for two years and five months after he pleaded guilty in the County Court on November 25 to sexually penetrating a child under the age of 16.

Thompson, who is being housed at Hopkins Correctional Centre, sexually penetrated the young girl on January 27, 2023 after he met a group of teens.

Thompson was introduced to the victim at the Grand Central Hotel in Cobram, before they moved on to another watering hole.

Thompson then bought the group drinks at a park where they continued to drink.

Thompson, who was 27 at the time, then invited the group to his place before Thompson proceeded to sexually penetrate the exhausted victim on a bunk bed.

The victim was in and out of consciousness while he attacked her, the court heard.

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The young girl was a subject of a missing person’s report at the time of the attack, the court heard.

In a harrowing victim impact statement read to the court, the young girl feels her body is not her own since the incident.

“No matter how many times I scrub my body in the shower I still feel his hands on me,” she says in her statement

The young girl suffered from flashbacks and nightmares and was scared to leave town with her friends, the court heard.
Thompson’s lawyer Ian J Polak told the court Thompson had shown quite a bit of remorse since his arrest.

Mr Polak told the court Thompson was drunk when the incident occurred and his mental state was impaired.

The court heard Thompson would require “intensive alcohol rehabilitation” once he was released from prison.

The victim “still feels” Thompson’s hands on her body nearly two years on from the horrific rape.

Judge Robyn Harper told the court the victim was “young, vulnerable and alcohol affected”.

Judge Harper said Thompson lied to police when he was interviewed and told him his behaviour was “disgusting and shameful”.

The court heard Thompson was working in prison and was “quite an immature person”.

The court heard Thompson had a child with an ex-partner but she had cut off ties with him since he was charged.

Thompson, who was supported in court by his mother, had a “difficult childhood” and was bullied at school.

Thompson, who had no previous criminal history, was jailed for a maximum of four years.

He was placed on the sex offenders register for 15 years.