Teenager raped 12-year-old girl he met through Snapchat

A teenager has been jailed for four years after admitting to raping a 12-year-old girl. William Lee Cooper was 17-years-old when he was introduced to his victim on Snapchat, Bolton Crown Court heard. The pair spoke and met up at Atherton railway station on December 7 2017, prosecution barrister Adam Lodge told the court. READ MORE : Man charged with murder as 60-year-old killed near Printworks is named The victim had been with friends on that occasion and Cooper, of Briscoe Lane, Newton Heath, kissed her on the head when they eventually parted ways. He asked the girl if they could meet up again and they did on December 11. They went to a field close to a primary school in Atherton and Cooper asked the girl if she wanted to sit on him, as the ground was wet. She eventually stood up and Cooper told her to sit back down. Mr Lodge told the court that Cooper gave her a love bite on her neck – at which point she told him to stop. He threw her phone out of reach, pinned her down, ripped her leggings and raped her. The girl said that the attack lasted up to…
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