July 2013
Child rapist babysitter jailed for 14 years as jury reduced to tears
By Nicky Harley – Hull daily mail
A CHILD rapist has been jailed for 14 years after being found guilty by a jury who were reduced to tears by evidence heard during the five-day trial.
Daniel Bottger attacked the young girl while babysitting her, Hull Crown Court heard.
During a recorded interview, shown to the jury, the victim told a specially trained police officer: “I have been brave at hospital. They gave me medicine.”
The jury took three and a half hours to find Bottger, 24, unanimously guilty of two counts of rape on a child aged under 13.
Clutching a Disney Princess Belle doll, the child played on the sofa in the police interview suite as she relived her ordeal.
She revealed to the interviewer how she had immediately told her mother she had been hurt when she came to collect her.
Bottger, from Hull, but of no fixed address, had only been alone with the girl for two and a half hours, the court heard.
Prosecutor Richard Woolfall said: “It hurt her and upset her and left her with some injuries.
“She was unable to keep what had happened to herself and told her mother. She later told medical staff and then went on to tell the police.”
Bottger had insisted nothing sexual had happened
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