A judge has ordered a man in his 40s to serve two months behind bars for a series of heinous rapes of pre-teen girls dating back to the early 1980s.
The man was convicted following a trial earlier this year.
Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, he cannot be named because he was 14 at the time of the offences.
All of the incidents took place on the T’it’q’et Reserve in Lillooet in the first six months of 1983.
The two victims were foster children, aged five and eight, taken in by the rapist’s family.
During the trial, one of the victims testified the rapes “happened all the time.”
In one case, the attacker raped the five-year-old victim inside a Lillooet pre-school. In another, the attacker hid the same victim under his mattress when his mother came into his bedroom, then proceeded to continue to rape her after his mother left.
In his sentencing decision, Kamloops provincial court Judge Stephen Harrison noted the attacker went on to lead a successful and normal life. He has no other criminal record and is married with two adult children.
Harrison said the attacker has continually denied responsibility for the rapes.
The attacker’s brother was also convicted of sexual assault relating to a separate incident in 1987. He did not receive jail time.
