A 16-year-old youth has been jailed for 10 years for a home-invasion rape.
Alefosio Afaese had pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary and raping a 22-year-old Avondale neighbour.
He was 15 at the time of the attack, on March 9. Initially, police and Afaese's 27-year-old partner, with whom he has a child, believed he was 22.
Passing sentence in the High Court at Auckland yesterday, Justice David Morris said Afaese had lived like an adult and committed an adult crime.
He had pleaded guilty only when conviction seemed inevitable.
Crown prosecutor Brian Dickey told the judge that Afaese masked himself with a T-shirt and took a knife from the kitchen after entering the house through an unlocked back door.
His victim submitted because she feared that he would hurt her 3-year-old daughter.
Mr Dickey said that afterwards Afaese callously stayed, had a cigarette and talked to the woman. He told her he had been watching her.
It was deliberate and predatory, Mr Dickey said, and indicated that the victim had been "earmarked" for rape.
Youth gets 10 years for rape
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