Locations
Allen Road, Stoke Newington, North London, N16
Description
Anthony Maina, 52, of Allen Road, Stoke Newington, was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court on Thursday, after being found guilty of 17 offences, including seven counts of rape.
The court heard how Maina exploited a position of trust to groom the girl, buying her gifts, clothing, food and mobile phones in a bid to normalise the abuse he was carrying out.
He referred to the victim as “his girl” and his “best friend in the universe”, and would regularly accuse her of having “neglected” him if she did not maintain contact.
Maina would isolate her from all of those around her to knock away at her confidence to prevent her from questioning what he was doing.
He would ask the survivor to come to his property under false pretences, such as to receive a parcel or let some workmen in, and would then abuse her.
When she began to challenge this, he would suggest to her other family members she was being unhelpful, to in effect force her to come to his property.