Paedophile raped young girl in Rotherham while asking her to mimic Grand Theft Auto sex scene
A paedophile who raped a young girl in Rotherham while asking her to mimic a sex scene from videogame Grand Theft Auto has been jailed for three years.
Thomas Brookes, now 32, was aged 15-17 when he asked the young girl aged 7-8 years old to join him on his Xbox - asking her to give perform a sex act as shown in the controversial console game.
The rape, Sheffield Crown Court heard, lasted five minutes. Prosecutor Richard Davis described how on another occasion sick Brookes asked the same young girl to perform a “dog role play”.
Mr Davis said this was an “attempted” rape.
His victim remained silent about the ordeal until 2024, the court heard, when she finally told her parents.
Judge David Dixon told Brookes: “You isolated her and started to play a particular game and in that game you were able to depict (a lewd act) and used that as a mechanism to get (the victim) to do the same to you.
“That was carefully orchestrated for someone your age at the time. Both offences were carefully orchestrated and you made sure she was isolated and kept quiet.”
Brookes appeared at court via prison video link from HMP Isle of Wight Albany where he was already serving a 12-year sentence for the rape of two boys aged 13 around the same time as his young female victim.
Judge Dixon said: “What makes your case particularly difficult to deal with is you have already been dealt with for offending against two other young boys.
“That sentence was particularly harrowing - the judge came to the view that 12 years was appropriate even at the age you were at the time.”
In a statement read out to the court Brookes’ victim described her “guilt” at hearing about his other young victims when that case went to court.
She added: “All I can say is I’m sorry.” She had since suffered frequent flashbacks in adult life, been diagnosed with PTSD and was assessed as “borderline suicidal”.
Addressing her in court, Judge Dixon said: “It’s immensely brave of you coming here today. To sit there and listen with the dignity you have says more about you than it ever could about him.
“You are still young - it’s easy for me to say put it behind you but try. You’ve got the whole world ahead of you.“
Brookes admitted rape and attempted rape of a girl under 13. He was jailed for three years, leaving him with a 15-year total jail term.
He would, said Judge Dixon, have to serve at least 10 years in custody and was handed an indefinite restraining order.