Depraved Clyde dad Rhys Davies pleads guilty to sexual assault after Frankston pub crawl
A Melbourne dad who sexually assaulted an intoxicated woman after a Frankston pub session told his victim he “f***ed up real bad”.
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A grubby Clyde dad who sexually assaulted an intoxicated woman following a Frankston pub session has avoided a jail sentence.
Rhys Davies, 30, was sentenced in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Friday to a three-year community correction order after pleading guilty to sexual assault charges.
Davies violated his victim after the woman had been drinking with friends.
CCTV footage revealed Davies and the victim at a venue drinking and chatting earlier in the evening.
From about 11pm, Davies and the victim are seen hugging, kissing and holding hands before leaving The Deck together about 2.16am and heading to the victim’s partner’s house.
The victim vomited out the front of the house and had to be helped inside by Davies and another person.
The court heard the victim didn’t remember much from that point on.
Davies and two others took the victim to bed, removing her top and pants as she had been sick on them, then covered her with a blanket.
She was asleep when two friends left the room, but Davies remained.
Davies knelt down beside the bed before a person returned with a glass of water a short time later and told Davies to let the girl sleep and “he didn’t need to be in the room with her”.
Between consciousness, the victim remembers feeling paralysed in bed, with a heavy head. She also remembers Davies beside the bed.
She woke up a bit later to her pants pulled down around her ankles, her undies around her thighs and Davies looking at her.
He began touching her and she couldn’t do anything about it as she didn’t have the strength.
A person at the house realised they hadn’t seen Davies in a while so went into the room and saw him kneeling beside the victim, pulling the doona up over her while she was breathing heavily.
The person left and returned a few minutes later to Davies sitting on the side of the bed, holding the girl’s hand and told him again he didn’t need to be in the room.
The person left again then Davies pulled off the doona, put his head down near the victim’s genitalia before beginning oral sex on the victim.
The person returned to find Davies’ head in between her legs, while the victim was still passed out with her eyes shut.
The person screamed at Davies and asked him what he was doing just as the victim woke up.
The person left the room and told others at the house she just saw Davies “going down” on the girl.
Davies was then told to leave the house.
The next day, Davies tried to contact his victim seven times between about 3.54am and 1pm that day — the victim never responded and ignored his calls.
Davies, who had his victim’s phone number, sent the woman a text saying how sorry he was and that “nothing he can say or do can change what happened”.
“I know I’ve f———ed up real bad … but mostly I’m sorry for my actions,” Davies wrote.
“I’m sorry I took advantage of the situation we were in.
“I’m going to do everything I can to amend the damage I’ve done …”
Davies told officers during an interview “nothing had ever happened” between the pair before, and he didn’t know why anything did.
The court heard Davies’ partner — and the mother of his child — remains supportive of him and was present in court.
Magistrate Tara Hartnett said Davies “took advantage of the clearly intoxicated girl”.
“You are responsible for that,” she said.
“You showed no care for her and took advantage of her when she was vulnerable — that is squarely on your shoulders and no one else.”
Ms Hartnett convicted Davies and ordered him to serve 300 hours of community work with 100 hours credited to rehabilitation programs.
“If you breach this order, by not engaging with it or further offences, you will be brought back before court you should expect to go into custody.”
