A rapist who plied two Oldham girls with drink and drugs and sexually abused them when they were four and eight-years-old was jailed yesterday.
John Paul Lee, 36, of Lytham Road, Blackpool, was sentenced to 17 years in prison after being found guilty of nine counts of raping a child and six counts of indecently assaulting a child.
He was also ordered to sign the Sex Offender’s Register for life.
The incidents occurred between around 2002 and 2008 when one girl was four and the other eight.
Lee repeatedly sexually abused the girls at an address in Oldham and would ply them with drink and drugs and force them to watch pornography before performing sex acts on him.
He also first raped one of the girls in 2011 when she was 13.
In a victim impact statement, one of them wrote: “When I look back to when the abuse was happening to me I realise that I was not a normal child – he made me experiment with drugs and started me smoking at the age of seven.
“I had no childhood. I struggle to sleep. When I wake up in the night I have to turn my light on to make sure no one else is in the room and I have nightmares frequently.
“They are about what he did to me but mainly him making me watch him do things to the other victim. I hear her screaming. I see her crying and I feel helpless that I cannot stop it.”
Police Constable Natalie Eastwood, from the Chadderton Public Protection Investigation Unit, credited the girls for their bravery in coming forward to police.
“These two girls had their childhoods snatched away from them in the most appalling of circumstances,” she said.
“Lee is an evil, depraved man who subjected them both to unimaginable abuse.
“It was heart-wrenching for me to hear what lasting and significant impact the abuse has had on them both physically and psychologically and try as I might I cannot adequately reflect this in words.”
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