Yonas Gebreab, a young Harehills Leeds paedophile, lured a five-year-old kid into a lavatory and perpetrated a severe sexual attack on him.
Yonas Gebreab was apprehended only after the boy’s elder sister expressed suspicion and confronted him.
A 19-year-old, Yonas Gebreab, was sentenced to imprisonment at Leeds Crown Court this week after confessing to a grave sexual assault.
The court was informed that Yonas Gebreab had taken the youngster into the lavatory in March of the previous year, but was discovered by the older sibling.
When she asked what they were both doing, Yonas Gebreab said he was helping the boy wash his hands, but she noticed their hands were dry.
The boy then told her what had happened. The police were contacted and Yonas Gebreab, of Bayswater Row, Harehills, was arrested.
He confessed the sex attack to police. Forensic evidence also supported the case against him. He has no previous convictions.
Mitigating, Timothy Jacobs said there was “remorse on his part” and there was “significant immaturity”, given that he was only 18 at the time of the offence.
He said that Yonas Gebreab was also vulnerable and was partially deaf with learning difficulties. He said that given the victim’s young age “the passage of time might lessen the impact” on the child’s life.
A report into Yonas Gebreab found that he was “emotionally and sexually underdeveloped”.
The judge, Recorder Edward Legard told him: “You forced him [the boy] into a degrading sexual act in order to satisfy a perverted seuxal urge.
“Your actions will have profound consequences for the victim and others in his family.
“This offending inevitably causes untold damage and distress.
“What you did was unforgivable. You took advantage of a very young child. No doubt given his tender years, he would have trusted you implicitly.”
He sentenced Yonas Gebreab to three years’ detention in a young offender institute. He was put on the sex offender register for life and given a life-long sexual harm prevention order (SHPO).
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