A man with autism spectrum disorder has been found guilty of a horrific sexual assault on a sleeping seven-year-old girl in the north-east Perth suburb of Ellenbrook.
Callum Ferris Davies, 28, claimed he was mentally disabled but the judge rejected this.
Davies was caught on CCTV jumping a backyard fence before attacking the defenseless boy. 9News reported.
It was shortly after midnight on December 27, 2021, when the Oakfield man broke into the house and the girl’s bedroom.
She woke up to find her mouth “taped shut” and told to shut up before they “strangled her unconscious,” she told police.
She told officers she wasn’t sure if what happened was “a nightmare or real.”
The girl woke up in a different pajama top than the one she wore to bed, and Davies turned herself in to police days later.
Callum Ferris Davies (pictured) has been found guilty of a horrific sexual assault on a sleeping seven-year-old girl in the north-east Perth suburb of Ellenbrook.
Davies was caught on CCTV jumping over a backyard fence (pictured) before attacking the defenseless boy.
The young man, now 28 years old, admitted to having committed the sexual attack, but said he was in a state of psychosis and could not control himself.
He said he had been smoking cannabis and drinking before leaving his home on the night of the assault.
But after hearing all the evidence presented to the court, Judge David MacLean found him guilty of sexually penetrating a child under 13, indecent treatment of a child under 13, aggravated burglary of a house and two counts of impeding someone’s breathing alphabet reported.
Davies will serve his sentence, which will be decided at a sentencing hearing in January, in prison rather than in a psychiatric facility.
It was shortly after midnight on December 27, 2021, when the Oakfield man broke into the house and the girl’s bedroom.