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AGONY OF SCHOOLBOY RAPIST'S VICTIM
Mar 14 2005
EXCLUSIVE
By Jeremy Armstrong
A PETITE teacher told yesterday how she thought she was going to die at the hands of her 12-year-old rapist.
The special needs tutor, just 5ft 2in and 7st, was overpowered by the brute in a deserted centre as she gave him one-to-one tuition.
Still traumatised by the attack, she said: "His adrenalin was pumping and he'd totally changed. It was as if someone had come in and taken over his body.
"I was so scared. I thought he was going to put his hands round my throat and strangle me.
"His eyes were so wild I honestly believed I was going to die. It doesn't matter that he was 12 - he could have been 22 that day, he had the strength of an adult."
The deeply disturbed boy - Britain's youngest convicted rapist - remained silent throughout the attack. At the end, he roared off in the teacher's car.
On Friday, the powerful lad was locked up for life after a court heard he was massively damaged following a lifetime of foul abuse from the age of three.
But, incredibly, the rapist, branded "pure evil" by his stepfather, is still behind bars in a remand centre just a mile from his victim's home in Co Durham.
Meanwhile, the 32-year-old teacher is in counselling and suffers recurring nightmares and flashbacks of her terrifying ordeal.
Still outraged that she should have been left on her own with such a warped misfit, she said: "I hate him so much for what he has done to me.
"He changed my life forever in an instant. And he changed my whole vision of children and childhood innocence."
Her life was ripped apart on November 29 last year. But there was no hint of the agony to come when she picked up the boy from his foster home in Darlington for a routine English and IT lesson.
Wearing a blue business suit, and for the most part composed and controlled, the tutor said: "He asked me how much petrol I had in the car, how the clutch worked, and how you lifted the gear stick.
I THOUGHT he was just asking about cars because he was mad about them. I now realise that he was thinking of stealing it all along.
"He was very quiet that morning. We went into a computer room where he sat at a desk and I sat behind him.
"As lunchtime approached, I said to him, 'Because you've had a late break, how about we have a late lunch and then you have a short afternoon?'
"He said, 'No problem'.Then a person who worked there came to me and said, 'I'm off for dinner. If you leave, can you lock the door?'
"The boy obviously realised we were going to be left alone."
The attack - shocking in its savagery and surprise - came minutes later out of the blue.
Clasping her hands, the teacher said: "One minute he was sitting there working, the next he was trying to get on top of me.
"I went for the phone and grabbed it. But he threw it and shouted, 'No!' I screamed, 'What are you doing, get off!"
"At first, he did get off. But I couldn't get out of the door because he was at the exit. I tried to calm him down. For about 20 seconds he was just breathing very heavily and staring at me.
"It was like something from a movie. I thought he was really going to hurt me, hit me, punch me, and got a chair between us.
"But he came round and pushed me on the floor. He took my knickers and tights down - but he was very clever. He pushed me from where I'd been sitting so he could see if anyone came in.
"It's hard to know how long the attack lasted - probably around 10 minutes, though it seemed longer."
After the savage assault the boy, now 13, demanded her car keys, purse and money, emptying her bag before throwing her phone on the floor.
The teacher said: "He didn't run, didn't panic. I was crying and in a terrible state. But he didn't care."
Leaving his victim distraught, the boy slowly strolled outside and drove off in her high-powered car.
He eventually crashed it 40 miles away in his home town of Gateshead and was arrested soon afterwards.
As she recalled the attack, the teacher appeared to be in control. But when she told of the immediate aftermath, and her fear that the boy would return to kill her, she twisted her hands in obvious distress.
SHE said: "I locked myself in the toilet. I thought he was going to come back and finish me off. But even there I thought he could get to me.
"I was on my phone to 999 for 11 minutes. I said, 'I've been raped, my car has been stolen!' I must have given the registration number so many times because I was convinced he was going to kill someone on the motorway.
"When I heard someone coming in the door I was screaming - I thought it was him coming to get me again." The boy, who cannot be identified, denied the rape. In an attempt to force a confession detectives played a recording of his victim's 999 call, her harrowing screams for help ringing out in the interview room.
But it did not touch him. The rapist stuck to his denial, only admitting the offence when DNA evidence was presented to him.
Before he was four, the boy was being abused and encouraged to drink alcohol and smoke. He was so damaged he even simulated sex with his teddy bear.
He was taken into care when his alcoholic, heroin-smoking mother was jailed for rape and indecently assaulting two minors.
But his married victim, who specialises in teaching emotionally disturbed children, stressed there can be no excuse for his horrific actions. She said: "I know it's hard for people to understand. All they think of is that he's just 12. But this was no normal 12-year-old.
"He's been let down by his family and the authorities. Given his history, he should never have been left with me. He should been dealt with in a secure environment."
The teacher, who also cannot be named, came face to face with her attacker for the first time when he was sentenced at Teesside crown court, Middlesbrough, last week.
Coldly, threateningly, he locked his gaze on her after spotting her sitting in the public gallery.
But the woman refused to show the slightest sign of weakness and stared back at him in brave defiance.
She said: "I wanted to show I wasn't afraid of him. It was a shock when he first came in, to see his face, that total lack of emotion again.
"The face never changed - it was just a cold stare. He was looking to see if I was going to burst into tears. But there was no way I was going to let him beat me.
"Although I hate him so much I didn't want him to have that as a last impression of me. That's why I wanted to face him so he could see he couldn't control me anymore.
"He's never shown any remorse. But I'm glad that I faced him, and relieved that he's been locked up for life. He's not going to hurt anyone else for a very long time."
The teacher is from a respectable middle-class background and has been helped by her strong, loving family and close friends.
But the scars of her rape run deep. She said: "I've had no rest for weeks. I was given sleeping tablets and am still in counselling.
"If I nod off, I wake up straight away in hot sweats. I've kept dreaming I was dying, the rape, being attacked. It was the fear of dying that kept waking me up.
"One night I thought he was in the house, and lost it for three hours."
EVERY area of the woman's life has been touched by the terrible ordeal she was forced to endure. She was passionate about helping children with special needs. Now her trust is broken.
She said: "It's affected my work because I can no longer do one-to-one teaching. Though my husband and I are very happy together it's also affected my marriage, my family and my friends.
"Now I can't see a point where my trust in children will come back."
The teacher is enraged that her attacker is in the nearby remand centre, just 100 yards from the supermarket where she shops.
She said: "It's about a mile away, but I wasn't informed. I often have to drive past. It's not right having your rapist living so close by. I'd rather not know where he is."
The victim's husband attended court when the young brute was sentenced, and had tears in his eyes as his wife's ordeal was outlined.
He has been off work for months to help support his wife at home but has recently returned to the comprehensive where he works to pick up some personal belongings.
He said: "As I approached the school, I saw a boy in uniform, and thought, 'He's the same age as the rapist'. You realise that life is never going to be the same again.
"The worst was not knowing what the next day could bring, what my wife would have to get through."
His wife said softly: "I was a victim for a long time and wouldn't go outside for weeks. But now I'm a survivor. I will not let him beat me."
AGONY OF SCHOOLBOY RAPIST'S VICTIM
Mar 14 2005
EXCLUSIVE
By Jeremy Armstrong
A PETITE teacher told yesterday how she thought she was going to die at the hands of her 12-year-old rapist.
The special needs tutor, just 5ft 2in and 7st, was overpowered by the brute in a deserted centre as she gave him one-to-one tuition.
Still traumatised by the attack, she said: "His adrenalin was pumping and he'd totally changed. It was as if someone had come in and taken over his body.
"I was so scared. I thought he was going to put his hands round my throat and strangle me.
"His eyes were so wild I honestly believed I was going to die. It doesn't matter that he was 12 - he could have been 22 that day, he had the strength of an adult."
The deeply disturbed boy - Britain's youngest convicted rapist - remained silent throughout the attack. At the end, he roared off in the teacher's car.
On Friday, the powerful lad was locked up for life after a court heard he was massively damaged following a lifetime of foul abuse from the age of three.
But, incredibly, the rapist, branded "pure evil" by his stepfather, is still behind bars in a remand centre just a mile from his victim's home in Co Durham.
Meanwhile, the 32-year-old teacher is in counselling and suffers recurring nightmares and flashbacks of her terrifying ordeal.
Still outraged that she should have been left on her own with such a warped misfit, she said: "I hate him so much for what he has done to me.
"He changed my life forever in an instant. And he changed my whole vision of children and childhood innocence."
Her life was ripped apart on November 29 last year. But there was no hint of the agony to come when she picked up the boy from his foster home in Darlington for a routine English and IT lesson.
Wearing a blue business suit, and for the most part composed and controlled, the tutor said: "He asked me how much petrol I had in the car, how the clutch worked, and how you lifted the gear stick.
I THOUGHT he was just asking about cars because he was mad about them. I now realise that he was thinking of stealing it all along.
"He was very quiet that morning. We went into a computer room where he sat at a desk and I sat behind him.
"As lunchtime approached, I said to him, 'Because you've had a late break, how about we have a late lunch and then you have a short afternoon?'
"He said, 'No problem'.Then a person who worked there came to me and said, 'I'm off for dinner. If you leave, can you lock the door?'
"The boy obviously realised we were going to be left alone."
The attack - shocking in its savagery and surprise - came minutes later out of the blue.
Clasping her hands, the teacher said: "One minute he was sitting there working, the next he was trying to get on top of me.
"I went for the phone and grabbed it. But he threw it and shouted, 'No!' I screamed, 'What are you doing, get off!"
"At first, he did get off. But I couldn't get out of the door because he was at the exit. I tried to calm him down. For about 20 seconds he was just breathing very heavily and staring at me.
"It was like something from a movie. I thought he was really going to hurt me, hit me, punch me, and got a chair between us.
"But he came round and pushed me on the floor. He took my knickers and tights down - but he was very clever. He pushed me from where I'd been sitting so he could see if anyone came in.
"It's hard to know how long the attack lasted - probably around 10 minutes, though it seemed longer."
After the savage assault the boy, now 13, demanded her car keys, purse and money, emptying her bag before throwing her phone on the floor.
The teacher said: "He didn't run, didn't panic. I was crying and in a terrible state. But he didn't care."
Leaving his victim distraught, the boy slowly strolled outside and drove off in her high-powered car.
He eventually crashed it 40 miles away in his home town of Gateshead and was arrested soon afterwards.
As she recalled the attack, the teacher appeared to be in control. But when she told of the immediate aftermath, and her fear that the boy would return to kill her, she twisted her hands in obvious distress.
SHE said: "I locked myself in the toilet. I thought he was going to come back and finish me off. But even there I thought he could get to me.
"I was on my phone to 999 for 11 minutes. I said, 'I've been raped, my car has been stolen!' I must have given the registration number so many times because I was convinced he was going to kill someone on the motorway.
"When I heard someone coming in the door I was screaming - I thought it was him coming to get me again." The boy, who cannot be identified, denied the rape. In an attempt to force a confession detectives played a recording of his victim's 999 call, her harrowing screams for help ringing out in the interview room.
But it did not touch him. The rapist stuck to his denial, only admitting the offence when DNA evidence was presented to him.
Before he was four, the boy was being abused and encouraged to drink alcohol and smoke. He was so damaged he even simulated sex with his teddy bear.
He was taken into care when his alcoholic, heroin-smoking mother was jailed for rape and indecently assaulting two minors.
But his married victim, who specialises in teaching emotionally disturbed children, stressed there can be no excuse for his horrific actions. She said: "I know it's hard for people to understand. All they think of is that he's just 12. But this was no normal 12-year-old.
"He's been let down by his family and the authorities. Given his history, he should never have been left with me. He should been dealt with in a secure environment."
The teacher, who also cannot be named, came face to face with her attacker for the first time when he was sentenced at Teesside crown court, Middlesbrough, last week.
Coldly, threateningly, he locked his gaze on her after spotting her sitting in the public gallery.
But the woman refused to show the slightest sign of weakness and stared back at him in brave defiance.
She said: "I wanted to show I wasn't afraid of him. It was a shock when he first came in, to see his face, that total lack of emotion again.
"The face never changed - it was just a cold stare. He was looking to see if I was going to burst into tears. But there was no way I was going to let him beat me.
"Although I hate him so much I didn't want him to have that as a last impression of me. That's why I wanted to face him so he could see he couldn't control me anymore.
"He's never shown any remorse. But I'm glad that I faced him, and relieved that he's been locked up for life. He's not going to hurt anyone else for a very long time."
The teacher is from a respectable middle-class background and has been helped by her strong, loving family and close friends.
But the scars of her rape run deep. She said: "I've had no rest for weeks. I was given sleeping tablets and am still in counselling.
"If I nod off, I wake up straight away in hot sweats. I've kept dreaming I was dying, the rape, being attacked. It was the fear of dying that kept waking me up.
"One night I thought he was in the house, and lost it for three hours."
EVERY area of the woman's life has been touched by the terrible ordeal she was forced to endure. She was passionate about helping children with special needs. Now her trust is broken.
She said: "It's affected my work because I can no longer do one-to-one teaching. Though my husband and I are very happy together it's also affected my marriage, my family and my friends.
"Now I can't see a point where my trust in children will come back."
The teacher is enraged that her attacker is in the nearby remand centre, just 100 yards from the supermarket where she shops.
She said: "It's about a mile away, but I wasn't informed. I often have to drive past. It's not right having your rapist living so close by. I'd rather not know where he is."
The victim's husband attended court when the young brute was sentenced, and had tears in his eyes as his wife's ordeal was outlined.
He has been off work for months to help support his wife at home but has recently returned to the comprehensive where he works to pick up some personal belongings.
He said: "As I approached the school, I saw a boy in uniform, and thought, 'He's the same age as the rapist'. You realise that life is never going to be the same again.
"The worst was not knowing what the next day could bring, what my wife would have to get through."
His wife said softly: "I was a victim for a long time and wouldn't go outside for weeks. But now I'm a survivor. I will not let him beat me."
