Locations
Maple Close, Salford, Greater Manchester, M6
Description
Reece Austick (03/09/1997) of Maple Close, Salford, pleaded guilty to rape and has been sentenced to seven years and two months at Manchester Crown Square Court yesterday (Wednesday 20 November 2024).
Additionally, he has been ordered to sign the sex offenders' register for life.
The victim was aged 14 at the time of her abuse.
Austick added his victim on Facebook in November 2018 and was speaking to them online for two or three weeks prior to arranging to meet. Austick said he was aged 15, but when she was travelling on the train to meet him, he text his victim to say that he was actually 17. In actual fact, he was 21.
He knew his victim was 14 as she had told him and it displayed her age on her profile.
Over the course of two days at Austick’s address, he sexually abused his victim by forcing her to have sex with him.
Police later arrested Austick on suspicion of rape. The victim was safeguarded and supported by specialist officers.