An alcoholic loner filmed Melbourne schoolgirls and mapped out an attack before using a bloodied knife and threats to rape a 17-year-old victim in broad daylight.
Christopher James Bahen, 59, had never had a relationship with a woman when he began to prepare for an attack on a student who lived near his Ringwood flat at least six days before he struck.
Police found video footage shot from his flat that focused on the legs and skirts of girls from a local school and a map that marked out the school, Bahen's flat and the location of the eventual rape.
Victorian County Court Judge Mark Gamble, in jailing Bahen for eight and a half years, said the calculated, brutal and brazen crime was the type people would only envision occurring in horror movies.
Bahen pleaded guilty to the offence that happened on September 8 last year after he chased the girl as she was walking home from school wearing headphones and dragged her to the ground.
When she shouted "help me, help me", Bahen held a knife to her face and throat and threatened to stab and kill her if she didn't stop screaming.
The knife was covered with blood as Bahen had earlier cut himself, and Judge Gamble said visions of the blade and the blood pouring from it still haunt the girl.
Bahen raped her next to a footpath and only stopped after several people intervened.
The crime was aggravated by the fact Bahen degraded the girl with taunts and perversely suggested she was enjoying the attack, Judge Gamble said.
Bahen called her a "dirty little slut" and other insults.
"Perhaps worst of all you suggested she was some how to blame for it, saying she deserved everything she was getting," Judge Gamble said.
He praised the victim, saying she bravely fought a man who was bigger and stronger than her and tried to raise the alarm
"It is even sadder that she initially felt a sense of shame and embarrassment for what had happened," Judge Gamble said.
"It is you, Mr Bahen, who should feel responsible, embarrassed and ashamed for what occurred.
"It was a most despicable act on your part."
Bahen was given a non-parole period of six years.
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