Skip to main content

British soldier who raped a 6yr old girl in her home in Austria while drunk is jailed for 9 years

A British soldier has been jailed for nine years for drunkenly raping a six-year-old girl in her bedroom while stationed on an adventure course with his unit. Craig Stormey, 30, was on an alpine skiing course with the 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery in the Stubai Valley, Austria, when the horrific assault took place.

Today Judge Norbert Hofer said it was 'impossible' to find an appropriate punishment given the severity of the attack and ranked it among the 'worst kind of abuse of a child's physical well-being'.

 
The court at Innsbruck, in the province of Tyrol, heard that the attack took place in November 2014 when the Afghanistan veteran drunkenly entered an unlocked house, stripped off and started to perform sexual acts on the sleeping child.
The girl's father told the court: 'I was lying in my bed and saw a figure holding a child in his arms.

'I was half asleep and first thought it was my wife but then I realised she was lying next to me.

'Then I saw the naked stranger in another room with my daughter. I completely flipped and hit him several times in the face.'
 
During the fight, his wife and their daughter fled the house as he called the police.
He added: 'Our daughter has managed to cope with the incident relatively well. But she has a very good memory.'

The defendant, who was in Tyrol on an 'Adventure Camp' with his unit, said that he had 'quite a few' drinks with his friends but could not remember why he left the pub they were drinking in or why he entered the house.

He said: 'There is no explanation for what I did, and there is also no excuse. All I can remember is fighting inside a house with a man, and a woman who held a child in her arms.'
He told the court he had suffered from PTSD having fought in war zones and had seen severe sexual assaults among soldiers on the battlefield. He also apologised to the girl and her parents.
Police arrested the accused in the house and since then he had been in detention in Innsbruck prison while awaiting trial.

Medical investigators examined the little girl and backed her claims of the events.
Judge Norbert Hofer said that the defendant 'had made sexual actions that can hardly be topped.'

Psychiatrist Reinhard Haller said that Mr Stormy had signs of a post-traumatic stress disorder from tours in Afghanistan but certified him as legally sane.
Dr Haller had previously worked on the case of  Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian woman who was kidnapped at the age of ten and held captive for eights before escaping.

Laszlo Szabo, Mr Stormey's lawyer, said: 'The combination of alcohol and his trauma played a major role.
'In spite of this, he had shown no such inclinations for all his life and therefore his actions remain inexplicable.'
Mr Szabo was planning to appeal the sentence.
 
 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Will, Jada Pinkett Smith 'We're NOT getting a divorce' - Celebrity couple dismiss rumours

Rumors of divorce have been trailing celebrity couple Will and Jada Pinkett Smith in the last few days, and amongst all this, Pinkett says, 'Marriages go through shifts'. Hollywood  power couple,  Will  and  Jada Pinkett Smith  have shut down viral reports that they are getting a  divorce . Rumours  of  divorce  have been trailing celebrity couple  in the last few days, and amid this,  Pinkett  says, 'marriages go through shifts'. Speaking in the August 2015 issue of  American Way magazine ,  Jada Pinkett Smith,  43, shed more insight into her high-profile 17-year-old marriage to  Will Smith , and all the ups and downs included. Read:  Actress confirms she has an open marriage with Will Smith play (Getty Images ) Pinkett Smith  told  American Airlines' inflight magazine  that she and her husband are accustomed to the  rumours . In fact, they weather it togethe...
Post a Comment
Read more

Amber Rose claps back at haters for her 'slut walk' event

Amber Rose advertised a slut shaming event that she's hosting in LA, which she said it's meant to combat women equality issues, such as sexual injustice and victim blaming among other things. However some people didn't see it that way and bashed her over it. She then responded to one of them in particular and all her haters in general. See what she wrote after the cut...
Post a Comment
Read more

Customs' thugs mistakenly kill innocent trader over 'settlement'

On Friday, July 10,a  28 year old trader Kabiru Mohammed, was said to be dealing in second-hand shoes and was returning from the Seme area in his car at about 5am.was when he was stopped at a checkpoint manned by customs officials around the Federal Government College area in Ijanikin.   It was gathered that after the inspection by the NCS officials, Mohammed was told he could leave. ADVERTISEMENT However, one of the thugs, reportedly working with the NCS officials, was said to have given Mohammed’s vehicle a chase and thrown an object at the car tyres, which made the vehicle swerve and somersault. Mohammed  reportedly died on the spot before he could be helped.   Policemen from the Ijanikin division and soldiers at another checkpoint in the area took Mohammed’s corpse away.   A commercial driver, identified only as Suleiman, said when the officers and the thugs realised that Mohammed was dead, they fled the checkpoi...
Post a Comment
Read more