In her victim impact statement the mother of the 9-year-old said that since the attack she is living a nightmare that she can't wake up from.

“He made her believe in her little heart that she would die if she didn't comply.”

She said she lies awake at night tormented by unbearable images and that she imagines hearing her child's heart beating in fear.

She said her daughter has gone from being a happy exuberant child to a worried reserved person who doesn't feel safe anymore.

The father of the 6 year old victim sobbed while reading through his victim impact statement in which he said that hearing his child first tell him what the man had done to her was “like a bomb going off in his head”.

He said she freezes or panics when she sees “creepy men everywhere, everyday” and refused to be on her own at any time, including at night time.

In a poem he wrote and read out in court he asked: “What can a Daddy do to protect this princess beauty? Are we lost to evil?”