Man found guilty of sexually assaulting sleeping seven year old girl
Written by admin on October 3, 2024
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A man has been found guilty of raping a seven-year-old girl after taping her mouth shut and choking her unconscious in her bedroom in Perth.
Callum Ferris Davies, 28, sexually assaulted the girl after breaking into her home in Ellenbrook, in Perth’s northeast, just after midnight on December 27, 2021.
The Oakfield man, who has autism spectrum disorder, admitted to carrying out the attack in court last month but pleaded not guilty on the grounds of mental impairment, claiming he was suffering from psychosis at the time.
CCTV footage of the 2021 incident shows Davies, then 25, walking up to the Ellenbrook property and climbing a backyard fence to get inside.
He then slid open a bathroom window before he made his way to the girl’s bedroom, the ABC reports.
During the judge-alone trial, the District Court in Perth heard Davies taped the girl’s mouth shut and choked her unconscious before sexually assaulting her.
The girl later told police she remembered being told by the intruder to be quiet.
She woke to find her mouth had been taped shut while wearing a different pyjama shirt she had worn to bed.
“This man came; my mum didn’t know; he sticky-taped my mouth; I pulled it down, but then he covered my mouth, so I couldn’t breathe; I can’t remember what was after that,” she said in a recorded interview with police, played at court, according to WAtoday.
Davies handed himself into police days following the assault.
He said he had been smoking cannabis and drinking before he left his house prior to the attack.
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Over two years on, Judge David MacLean has found Davies guilty of sexually penetrating a child under 13, indecent dealing with a child under 13, aggravated home burglary and two counts of impeding someone’s breathing.
The state accepted Davies had an impairment due to autism spectrum disorder, but it did not “account for that state of depravity”.
Davies was remanded into custody and will appear in court again in January.
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