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Teenage girl raped before brutal assault as police find sheets soaked in blood
A man who raped a 16-year-old girl and brutally assaulted her over a period of six weeks has been jailed. Police were alerted to the horrifying abuse by the victim's relative, after the girl attended hospital with two black eyes, bleeding to her ear, a swollen jaw and other abrasions to her head and face in April 2025.
TL;DR
- Callan Hennessey, 22, was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison.
- He was convicted of rape, assault, strangulation, and creating indecent images.
- The victim, 16 at the time, suffered severe injuries including black eyes and bleeding.
- Police found the victim's blood on bedsheets at Hennessey's residence.
- Hennessey will be on the sex offender's register for life and subject to an indefinite restraining order.