A "somewhat sadistic" man who spent a few months in Prince George has been sentenced to two years in jail for raping his much-younger girlfriend.
The man, who was 17 at the time and cannot be named, pleaded guilty to sexual assault and invitation to sexual touching of a person under 16. The girl was 13 and in Grade 8 at a Kamloops school.
In her June 28 decision, Kamloops provincial court Judge Stella Frame said his offence has "facets of psychopathy" in its premeditation and his drive to satisfy sexual urges that can be described as callous, dispassionate, "even contemptuous or cruel."
The abuse started when the 17-year-old "began biting (the girl's) skin when they were cuddling, causing bruising and sometimes bleeding" and continued from January and June of 2013, according to Kamloops This Week.
Once he took the girl to a storage room, locked the door and papered the window. There he asked her to touch him and forced her to by grabbing her hand and putting it on his genitals.
"The secrecy is similar to that noted in the offence he committed against his young male cousin previously," said Frame.
One day he got his girlfriend to skip school, took her to an alley in a remote area near a creek.
There he raped her and didn't stop until he noticed she was bleeding.
"He did not say so but she felt he was angry about the blood," wrote the judge, noting he also forced oral sex on the girl and urinated in the victim' mouth.
While he was assaulting the victim, the 17-year-old was in court-ordered counselling as part of his conditional discharge sentence received for sexual touching of his young cousin.
His actions with both show "chronic and escalating sexual violence" as well as a possibility of sexual deviancy.
The girl described her Grade 9 year as terrible and marked by bullying so bad she was driven to change schools.
Frame said she was "eloquent and compelling, but deeply emotional."
She told the court she struggled with thoughts of suicide because she felt she couldn't deal with her pain anymore. She suffers from anxiety that lead to emotional breakdowns and has had panic attacks.
"The hardest challenge for her was overcoming her self-hatred and blaming herself," Frame wrote.
After listing the man's history with the girl, Frame said it showed his "malignant indifference to the harm he causes to others and a profound lack of insight into his conduct."
The youth is "left wanting" when it comes to mitigating factors, though Frame noted the guilty plea saved the victim the "considerable distress" testifying before a trial would cause.
Addressing the court, Frame said the man "expressed remorse" and apologized.
"This is the first real indication of his insight into the harm he has caused her. He also said he knew nothing of the harassment she suffered at the hands of his friends,"
A few years after he sexually assaulted his girlfriend, he moved to Prince George with "no job prospects and no vehicle."
He was in the city from September to November 2015, but kicked out from his friend's house and couldn't afford to stay so he moved back to live with his mother and grandparents in Kamloops.
He had been under no bail conditions and now will spend two years less a day behind bars - provincial time for the youth sentence.
He was also handed a two-year probation order.
A psychologist said he is at a moderate-high to high risk to reoffend.
His offences may be attached to opportunity, and not necessarily an attraction to prepubescent children, a pre-sentence report said.
