December 2004 Prison sentence for child rapist A child rapist from County Durham has been jailed for ten years. David Jobes, 30, from Silverdale Place, Newton Aycliffe, was convicted at Teesside Crown Court of three counts of raping a 12-year-old girl. He was also convicted of two charges of indecent assault and another of gross indecency with a child. He was ordered to register as a sex offender life and banned for life from working with anybody under 18 or from having contact with anyone under 16.