A Victorian man jailed for having sex with an underage girl in exchange for cigarettes and gifts has pleaded guilty over the similar abuse of a young teen in state care.
After already serving time in prison in 2012, Emran Dad then met the vulnerable 13-year-old girl on a Springvale street in August 2016.
He struck up a conversation and asked if she wanted to ‘have fun’, prosecutor Stephen Ballek told the County Court on Monday.
The girl agreed and they drove to a factory where Dad, 27, gave her alcohol and cannabis. Another man there made sexual advances towards her but she refused.
A Victorian man jailed for having sex with an underage girl in exchange for cigarettes and gifts has pleaded guilty over the similar abuse of a young teen (stock image)
The girl added Dad as a contact on her phone under the name, ‘best friend ever’ and they stayed in touch.
During a subsequent meeting, he bought her cigarettes but refused to hand them over unless she accompanied him in his car.
He drove her to the Springvale area where he tried to kiss her saying, ‘Baby, I love you, don’t leave me’, and then had sex with her.
Police were notified after a friend of the girl questioned Dad about the incident.
His DNA was later found on her underwear, but Dad denied having sex with her and said she had told him she was over 18.
Dad later pleaded guilty to sexually penetrating a child under 16, possessing cannabis and failing to comply with his sex offender reporting obligations.
Dad had sex with a separate girl in 2012 when she was 13 in exchange for buying her cigarettes, and again in exchange for taking her shopping for her 15th birthday (stock image)
In 2012, he was jailed for a minimum 10 months for sex with an underage girl, and arranging for her to have sex with an adult man for payment.
Dad had sex with the girl when she was 13 in exchange for buying her cigarettes, and again in exchange for taking her shopping for her 15th birthday.
He told police at the time he didn’t know he wasn’t allowed to have sex with girls under 16 as that law did not exist in his native Afghanistan.
Previous reports to the court diagnosed Dad with significant cognitive disabilities following an acquired brain injury.
Defence barrister Amy Peek conceded his latest offending was grave and the girl was vulnerable.
Judge Liz Gaynor said Dad did not deserve a community correction order, given he was a repeat offender.
‘It’s quite clear in my view he knew perfectly well this girl was 13,’ he said.
‘If it had not been for the DNA evidence, we could well be running a trial,’ she said.
The plea hearing was adjourned until November.