June 2013 Birchgrove man who raped teenager leaving her pregnant is jailed for 12 years A PAEDOPHILE who raped a teenage girl, leaving her pregnant, has been jailed for 12 years. Paul Kenny, now 68, sexually assaulted and raped his teenage victim in the 1970s. She said he left her in agony, and said the pain she felt was the same she later experienced as an adult when she gave birth. Prosecutor Kevin Jones told Swansea Crown Court Kenny hit his victim across the bridge of her nose with an umbrella. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, reported the incidents to police in April this year. She said she had told neighbours and friends, but neither believed her, with one calling her “silly”. The court heard she later discovered she was 19 weeks pregnant and went with her mother for a termination. She was taken to hospital and put into induced labour but said the lack of sympathy she was given by nurses meant she did not feel she could tell them who the father was. In a statement to police, she said the birth of her first child should have been a “beautiful and happy moment” but instead it brought back memories of the termination she had. Kenny, of Trewen Road, Birchgrove, admitted both rape and indecently assaulting his victim when he was arrested in April this year. He said: “Everything she said is true”. The victim said she initially found the attack “strange” but Mr Jones said she believed that Kenny, as an adult, knew best. She said she did not report the attack because Kenny had “put the fear of God into her”. In a victim impact statement, read to the court, the victim said she felt that her childhood had been taken away from her and it had also had a “massive effect” on her adult life. Mr Kevin Jones said: “She was petrified about speaking out against him and lived in fear of doing so because of the threats made against her.” Craig Jones, for Kenny, said his client had pleaded guilty and asked Judge Peter Heywood to take his age into account when sentencing. “It’s quite possible, given the type of sentence the court is minded to impose, he will spend the rest of his life in prison, and currently the rest of his useful life in prison,” he said. Judge Heywood jailed him for a total term of 12 years and told him he would have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. He said he had considered imposing a life term but his age, guilty plea and candour during interviews, meant he could impose a determinate sentence.