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RAPIST SEXUALLY ASSAULTED FIVE-YEAR-OLD ON WAY HOME FROM PRISON RELEASE. “To sexually assault a child before he’d even made it home is beyond reprehensible,” says police officer
November 12, 2019
Chiara Giordano
Independent
A convicted rapist sexually assaulted a five-year-old girl on a train in front of her mother while travelling home from prison.
Darren Rothwell, 42, committed the attack just hours after being released from HMP Forest Bank, in Salford, where he had been serving a sentence for harassment and assault.
He boarded a train at Manchester Victoria on the morning of 18 April and intimidated two women travelling with their young children as he swore aggressively at them while drinking from a bottle of brandy and bragging about being released