A RAPIST who forced himself on a 15-year-old girl is today in custody waiting to learn how long he will be behind bars for.

A jury at York Crown Court heard that the girl was baby-sitting for a friend when the youth, who cannot be named because he is 17, had unprotected sex with her against her will.

Opening the prosecution against him, Rupert Doswell said the youth told the girl “you will like this” as she struggled to break free from his grasp and tried to stop him taking her trousers off.

His actions caused her pain and left her with external and internal injuries that a doctor later declared were highly likely to have been caused by non-consensual sex.

Mr Doswell said after the rape, the youth walked out of the flat without saying anything. The girl went to the toilet where she cried. On the children’s mother returning to the flat, she told her what had happened and rang her own mother, who went to her aid.

Giving evidence, the youth claimed the girl had caused the internal injury herself while performing a sex act on herself and denied that they had had sex together. He also denied restraining her.

The youth, of Acomb, denied rape, but was convicted unanimously by a jury after nearly six hours in retirement at the end of a five-day trial.

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His barrister Andrew Semple applied for him to be granted bail pending sentence.

“It is an application for mercy to enable him to prepare his house,” said the barrister.

But Judge Andrew Stubbs QC remanded the youth in custody, warning he faced a “lengthy sentence”.

The judge said he wanted to know how the rape had affected the girl and also asked the youth offending team to prepare a pre-sentence report on the youth before sentencing.

The youth did not react when the jury returned its verdict. He was 16 at the time of the rape.

The prosecution is expected to apply for a sexual harm prevention order against him when he returns to court on March 3. He will also be on the sex offenders’ register.