A court case described as almost ‘too horrific to publish’ has revealed how a young child was raped in the changing rooms of Splash World in Southport.
Liverpool Crown Court has heard how a paedophile subjected a young boy to a three-year ‘campaign of rape.’
Oliver Roughley, 24, began sexually abusing the child when he was aged as young as seven, and raped him at Splash World water park in Southport.
Roughley, from St Helens, Merseyside, first assaulted the boy when he was aged seven, and ‘told him not to tell anyone or he would go to jail and never see him again’.
Roughley’s abuse escalated to raping the youngster in the cubicles of swimming baths at Splash World in Southport.
He told the boy he would leave him stranded in Southport if he did not yield to his perverted desires.
A statement read out on behalf of the boy’s mum highlighted the ‘massive impact’ Roughley’s crime has had.
She said her son had ‘become a sad and angry boy’ who had tried to take his own life ‘on more than one occasion’.
The youngster also cannot be hugged by family members as he ‘doesn’t want to be touched’.
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