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Rapist’s guilty plea

A drunk south east man raped a woman in her own bed after the pair partied at a popular Ringwood nightclub.

Silvester Sor, 26, pleaded guilty to one charge of rape in the County Court on 17 November.

According to court documents obtained by Star News, Sor and his victim were known to each other and in early 2017, had been in a month-long casual relationship.

Once that ended, the pair remained friends and on 7 July 2017 they partied together at the Orange Whip nightclub with a group of friends.

Sor spent the night at his sober victim’s house, and the court heard the victim woke at 7am to find him raping her.

Court documents reveal the victim yelled at him to “get off”, which prompted him to immediately stop and apologise, stating: “I’m sorry. I don’t know what I was doing. You grabbed me like you wanted me”.

The visibly distraught victim reported the matter to police on the same day, after confiding to her friends.

Sor was arrested the next day.

The court heard he told police that he was intoxicated during the night, but by the time he went to bed, “he knew what he was doing”.

“I thought we were being touchy touchy again … she started moving her bum around my crotch area … and it just started getting really intense … I was trying to control myself and I dunno (sic) why I couldn’t”, he told police.

He knew that she was asleep at the time of penetration, as she was lying still, with her arms by her side, court documents stated.

The documents also stated that Sor admitted he was aware it was wrong to have sex with someone while they were asleep and agreed the victim would not have been aware of what was happening.

A remorseful Sor told police: “I can never forgive myself again … (I’m) hurt on the inside for what I’ve done to the poor girl … she’s probably traumatised”.

Sor is set to be sentenced on Thursday 3 December.

The maximum penalty for rape is 25 years imprisonment.

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