A serial rapist has blamed one of his victims for provoking his attack on a street in Adelaide’s CBD in 2012.
Patrick Mark Perkins allegedly told a woman she ‘should have known better’ than to be walking home alone on the night he raped her, The Advertiser reports.
The 57-year-old left his victim permanently emotionally scarred after telling her she was a ‘bad girl’ while ‘horrendously’ raping her, The District Court heard on Monday.
Grim details of the night of the attack along with the devastating toll it has taken on the woman’s life were revealed in her victim impact statement.
‘(Perkins) kept referring to me as a ‘good girl’, that I ‘should have known better’, that ‘good girls don’t walk home alone at night’,’ she said.
Patrick Mark Perkins (pictured) allegedly told a woman she ‘should have known better’ than to be walking home alone on the night he raped her in 2012
‘Now I can’t make any decision without wondering what a good girl would do…I hear his voice in my head, I don’t want to make any decisions because I don’t want to hear his voice.
‘But I don’t want to make a bad decision again and be punished so brutally…I don’t want to be a bad girl.’
The woman said she’d lost her soul along with her innocence as a result of being raped, and now welcomed the prospect of death.
Her victim impact statement stated: ‘I go from nothing to feeling extreme emotion at once…if I had a soul, I would care and I would love,’ she said.
Grim details of the night of the attack along with the devastating toll it has taken on the woman’s life were revealed in her victim impact statement
‘I’ve stopped wanting to share with people out of fear I will break them…I just avoid life, I feel like I’m the walking dead and I act like it.
‘I’m indifferent to death, it doesn’t scare me, I have seen it before…I felt so close to death that it will be like a reunion for me.’
A second victim appeared in court Monday, but chose not to give a statement.
Perkins’ QC Mark Griffin offered his client’s apology to both women and asked the court to consider the man’s guilty plea and lack of prior criminal history.
Mark Norman SC, prosecuting, said a long jail term was an ‘inevitable’ punishment for the ‘extremely disturbing’ crimes that ‘ruined’ two lives.
Judge Julie McIntyre remanded Perkins in custody for sentencing in two weeks.
A second victim appeared in court Monday, but chose not to give a statement