A SICK Rugby man who repeatedly sexually abused and raped a girl, using her for his ‘own depraved ends,’ has been jailed for sixteen-and-a-half years.
Carlos Mendez had groomed the girl by showing her affection at a time when she was being beaten and ill-treated at home, a judge at Warwick Crown Court has heard.
The 53-year-old, of Claremont Court, pleaded guilty to two charges of raping the girl, three of sexual activity with a child, and two of unlawful sexual intercourse.
He also admitted further charges of indecent assault, indecency with a child, and making indecent images of a child by getting her to send him pictures of herself.
Jailing Mendez and ordering him to register as a sex offender for life, Judge Anthony Potter told him: “You used her for your own depraved ends. They were calculated acts.”
The offences started when the girl was about 12 after Mendez had begun grooming her, beginning with him touching her indecently, then getting her to touch him.
It progressed to sexual intercourse which continued until she was 15, often after he had shown her pornographic videos at his home.
She once passed out during her abuse, but he callously pulled her up, gave her a glass of water and had intercourse with her.
Mendez, who taught her his favourite sexual positions, gave her money, and even his abusive attentions were welcomed because it was said she was beaten and ill-treated at home.
Such was his hold over her that even when she stopped seeing him, Mendez contacted her by email and persuaded her to send him semi-naked pictures of herself.
Eventually last year she went to Rugby police station to make a complaint, and gave a detailed account of what had taken place with him.
When Mendez was then arrested and interviewed, he denied any sexual activity with the girl.
But officers found the images of her, together with a word document on Mendez’s computer in which he went into ‘graphic detail’ about what had taken place – but seemed to be blaming her for what had happened.
