UK: Pakistani man jailed for raping 12-year-old girl, says ‘devil got him’

The man told the girl ‘I have to do this’ as he raped her, the prosecutor said.

Bradford

: A 27-year-old Pakistani man in the United Kingdom has been sentenced to 10 years jail for raping a 12-year-old Muslim girl. He confessed to committing the crime to his British wife, saying the “devil had got to him.”

According to a report in Daily Mail, Kamran Ahmed from Thornbury, Bradford, West Yorkshire, told the girl that she was pretty and had touched her inappropriately while also attempting to kiss her. He later said 'I have to do this,' and raped her, prosecutor Tom Storey told Bradford Crown Court.

He told the girl that no one would believe her if she told anyone about the rape. The girl did not inform her parents but later confided in her teacher and told her that she had been assaulted “in a dirty way.”

Ahmed, who claimed that the “devil had got to him” later pleaded guilty in the court. The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas Q C., said Ahmed will be deported to Pakistan after he serves his sentence.

The judge said the incident has scarred the life of the victim who was “unable to take advantage of counselling because it was too painful and difficult to speak about what had happened, even in such a private setting.”