A rapist who forced an underage girl to carry out a sex act on him while her mother was in the next room was jailed for three years today.
Andrzej Barwik’s victim earlier told a court that he had threatened to hit her if she did not do it.
Barwik had denied raping the girl at a house in Aberdeenshire in February last year but was found guilty of the crime after a trial.
A judge told the 32-year-old: “You have been convicted of a single, but serious, charge.”
Lady Wise told him at the High Court in Edinburgh that he had caused “considerable distress and trauma” following his assault on the vulnerable 14-year-old girl.
The judge said: “I note you continue to deny the commission of this offence.”
“The single act of which you were convicted is undoubtedly sufficiently serious to merit a reasonably significant custodial sentence as a punishment and to act as a deterrent,” she said.
Barwik, formerly of Britton Lodge, Seaforth Street, Fraserburgh, was found guilty of assaulting the teenager by uttering threats of violence and raping her in a bathroom.
Defence counsel Drew McKenzie said that Barwik historically had a good work record and was in employment in Poland before moving to Scotland and working here.
The defence counsel said it was recognised that a jail sentence was “almost inevitable”.
Following the conviction, he was placed on the sex offenders’ register.