Police sergeant jailed for 10 years for raping drunk woman

A law enforcement sergeant has been jailed for 10 a long time for raping a “paralytic” female who went on to give birth to his boy or girl.

Ben Lister was observed responsible of sexually assaulting and raping the girl when they ended up staying at the identical property right after a evening out in 2016.

Prosecutors mentioned the 36-calendar year-outdated, an officer with West Yorkshire Law enforcement, dragged the “very drunk” female off a couch even though she was asleep right before touching her sexually as she drifted in and out of consciousness.

Sentencing Lister at Bradford Crown Court docket, Decide Jonathan Rose said he had contacted the woman the future working day, “testing the waters to see if you experienced obtained away with getting sexual intercourse with a comatose woman”.

I definitely failed to cope very well through the being pregnant and felt like I should not have retained her, because I realized deep down what experienced took place to me and how she was conceived

Target assertion

When the sufferer questioned if they had had sex, the choose claimed Lister “told the initially of numerous lies” and mentioned they experienced not, but had engaged in some sexual activity.

The lady observed out she was pregnant a number of months afterwards and “knew then that she had been raped,” the court docket listened to.

DNA tests later on showed Lister was the child’s father, jurors were informed.

The lady went to police in January 2020 and Lister was arrested and interviewed. He denied just one depend of rape and 1 of assault by penetration, indicating any sexual get in touch with amongst the two was consensual.

A jury convicted him of both equally counts on Friday.

It comes immediately after a past demo jury unsuccessful to achieve verdicts in October last yr.

In a victim personalized assertion read to the courtroom, the female reported whilst she “loved her small female to bits”, she experienced “always struggled given that she was born”.

She is this sort of a lovely, funny, caring younger lady and I now dread the foreseeable future. I don’t want her to mature up to loathe me even even though I have carried out practically nothing incorrect

Sufferer assertion

She claimed: “I truly didn’t cope well during the pregnancy and felt like I should not have saved her, simply because I knew deep down what experienced occurred to me and how she was conceived.

“I do not think I went as a result of with the abortion mainly because I was so afraid they would talk to issues and I wasn’t ready to clarify what occurred to me then.

“I didn’t enjoy the feeling of her moving all over in my abdomen like the other mums did.”

The lady extra: “I seem at her and feel she is a constant reminder of what he has carried out to me.

“She is such a attractive, amusing, caring young female and I now dread the foreseeable future.

“I never want her to mature up to hate me even even though I have finished almost nothing incorrect.”

The decide jailed Lister for 10 years for the “disgusting and persistent sexual attack”.

He explained to Lister: “You took advantage of her, recognizing she could not bodily battle you off.”

The choose reported: “The consequences will increase for a lot of, a lot of years and there are challenges but to appear when the baby asks ‘who is my daddy?’”

He additional: “You had been a police officer. That carries with it a prerequisite that you behave in an upright, first rate and correct manner at all occasions, irrespective of whether on or off responsibility.

“Every lady of any age is entitled to go out and love on their own and to do so recognizing they will be secure all through the night and when they return to the ease and comfort of a property.”

Lister had been suspended from his purpose with the power pending the outcome of the circumstance. He will be positioned on the sexual intercourse offenders’ register for lifestyle subsequent the verdict.