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Burnley man accused of raping teenager
9:10pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008
By Peter Magill »
A TEENAGE rape victim says her 43-year-old attacker molested her on a sofa - then returned to his games console and carried on playing.
The girl claims Dean Caine struck as she was trying to sleep on a sofa bed at his flat and while his partner slept just yards away.
Burnley Crown Court heard how the girl was wearing only a nightdress and underwear when she was confronted by Caine after his partner went to bed at 1am.
The girl says he pulled her knickers aside before sexually assaulting her on the sofa. He then returned to Play Station game he had been playing.
She informed his then-partner of the assault the next day, telling her "Dean is not as good as you have made him out to be."
Giving evidence, the partner said: "She said that he had done dirty things to her."
Later the girl also told her mother and a pastoral worker at her school about her alleged ordeal.
Caine, of Deerstone Avenue, Burnley, is on trial at Burnley Crown Court. He denies raping the teen at his flat overnight on June 24 and 25 last year.
The court heard that Caine angrily denied that the rape took place when he was questioned about the incident later by his partner. He demanded to know why she would make up such an allegation.
Giving evidence later a pastoral worker at the girl's school, which cannot be named for legal reasons, said that the youngster was "quiet" and had few friends.
The court heard that the girl had encountered a number of problems in her relationship with her mother and was usually only comfortable in the presence of female adults, like the school pastoral worker, who she often asked for advice and support, and the school's educational welfare officer.
Defence counsel Elizabeth Nicholls asked if the pastoral worker was aware that the girl had made allegations against her mother saying that she had assaulted her and not her fed her properly, before the rape case came to light.
Miss Nicholls said that when the matters were further investigated they were found to be untrue and were regarded by social services as a "cry for attention".
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