A bible-clutching rapist who turned his victims’ childhoods into a ‘living hell’ was told they could never forgive him.
Wearing a lemon-yellow plastic rosary and holding a bound copy of the bible, Alala Kesahit, 31, wept as he heard the brutal impact of his sexual abuse on the two girls.
In a victim personal statement read to Oxford Crown Court by prosecutor David Lee, one of his two victims said: “You stole my virginity, you stole what could have been a memorable childhood that turned into a nightmare; a living hell.”
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She added: “You raped me, you harassed me, you abused me, you used me. I will never forgive you what you have done to me.”
The vile paedophile’s second victim said she did not think she would ‘ever be able to fully move past the pain’ he had put her through.
During a lengthy sentencing hearing on Thursday (April 27), the court heard how the girls were abused over more than half a dozen years.
The girls were subjected to multiple rapes, with Kesahit threatening both children with violence. One of the girls had her jaw forced open before he molested her, she said he had dragged her across the room and slapped her.
He was said to have filmed himself raping one girl, while the other was allegedly photographed while asleep.
The abuse took place in Oxford and Peterborough.
Mitigating, Sumita Mahtab-Shaikh told the judge that when she had gone to speak to her client in conference before the sentencing hearing he told her: “It’s my fault. It’s all me.”
Kesahit had told the probation officer tasked with writing a pre-sentence report ‘I am guilty, I have done wrong, I did immoral things’, the defendant’s barrister said.
However, the author of the report concluded that the defendant had to some degree obtained sexual gratification from the physical violence he threatened or meted out. The appalling abuse was something ‘infrequently encountered’, the experienced probation officer was reported as saying.
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The defendant, formerly of Headley Way, Oxford, pleaded guilty at earlier hearings to 14 counts, including rape of a child under-13, rape, sexual assault of a child under-13 by penetration, sexual assault by penetration and causing actual bodily harm. He had no previous convictions but received a police caution in 2013.
Jailing him for 20 years and imposing an extended four years on licence after finding him to be a ‘dangerous’ offender, Judge Lamb told Kesahit: “What you did to [your victims] has bludgeoned its way into every aspect of their lives.
“I noted that you wept while you heard those [impact statements] read out. I hope they were tears for your victims, I hope you are starting to realise the enormity of what you have done and they are not tears for your own predicament.”
Referring to the two victims, who watched the sentencing from the public gallery in courtroom three, the judge said: “Remarkably, these are two courageous young women prepared to speak out, who have brought what you did to them to light and have come to court today to show they will not be cowed by they way you have behaved towards them.”
Restraining orders prevent the defendant from contacting his victims for life. He will be subject to an indefinite sexual harm prevention order and will remain on the sex offender register until he dies.
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