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William of the White Hand

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Vic man jailed over Christmas rape
13:51 AEST Tue Oct 2 2012

A woman who thought she was getting a lift home from Melbourne's Crown Casino was driven to an abandoned industrial park and brutally raped on Christmas morning, a court has heard.

The woman, in her early 20s, was beaten and repeatedly raped after accepting the lift from two men just days after she moved to Melbourne.

Sam Beto, 36, was jailed for six and a half years in Victorian County Court on Tuesday, for what Judge Frank Gucciardo described as a predatory attack on a vulnerable victim.

"The violation was deliberate, sustained, brutal and degrading," he told Beto.

"You showed contempt ... for her worth as a person."

Beto had been drinking and dancing with the woman at a casino nightclub in the early hours of December 25, 2005, when he and a friend offered her a lift home.

The woman became nervous when the pair began speaking in another language as they drove.

She fled the vehicle as it pulled up at the industrial site in Melbourne's north, but Beto's accomplice caught her and punched her to the ground.

He then raped her.

The accomplice marched her back to the car, where Beto raped her again.

Judge Gucciardo said the woman has suffered from severe post traumatic stress disorder since the attack.

"You robbed her of those days of (Christmas) joy and celebration, not just for that year but probably for years to come," he told Beto.

Beto, an Iraqi national who moved to Australia in 2003, pleaded guilty to three counts of rape.


He must serve a minimum of five years in prison. His accomplice has already been jailed.

Beto, who was living in Campbellfield at the time of the offence, married just weeks after the crime and has since had two children.

He was charged by police in April 2011, after his accomplice finally revealed his identity.

Beto's mother collapsed in court as the sentence was read out and had to be carried from the room by family members.


http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8541749/vic-man-jailed-over-christmas-rape
 
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