February 2006 Teenagers sexually assaulted boy, eight, in garage Two teenagers lured an eight-year- old boy into a disused garage and seriously sexually assaulted him. The youngster was raped by the older youth while his pal looked on and joined in and assaulted him, Leeds Crown Court heard. Prosecutor Neil Clark said the victim was offered to go with the two accused while they were playing in the Ambleside area of Castleford He said the victim went with the teenagers after it was suggested to him they should go to the derelict garage for “rudies.” The court heard after the assault the youths went out together with their victim collecting conkers as if nothing had happened. Lee Swain, 18, of Fryston, Castleford, admitted raping the boy and was sentenced to two years detention in a young offenders’ institution and disqualified from working with children in the future. His 16-year-old pal, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13 and was sentenced to a three-year supervision order. He was also disqualified from working with children for the rest of his life. Passing sentence, Judge Shaun Spencer QC told Swain the prosecution had not alleged the offence of rape took place without his consent but it was still a very serious matter which carried a sentence of life imprisonment. He said: “This was not an offence which I regard or am willing to pass off as adolescent experimentation. “The child was offered money and taken to an enclosed place where the offence happened.” Judge Spencer added he accepted Swain had difficulties, which he had read about in a psychologist’s report, and that he had a mental and emotional young age. And the judge told Swain’s friend: “You were not the instigator and you didn’t start it, and, secondly, the activity you were responsible for was much less serious.”