A South Coast man who admitted to raping a teenage girl after organising to meet her via the mobile app Snapchat will be sentenced in February.
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Shaun Bray, 24, currently being held in Nowra's South Coast Correctional Centre, will be sentenced in the Wollongong District Court next year after pleading guilty to one count of aggravated sexual intercourse with a child aged between 14 and 16.
Court documents reveal Bray and a co-accused woman also aged in her 20s, contacted the girl via Snapchat on Sunday, February 24, organising to go fishing and swimming at a nearby town.
Bray then drove to the girl's house to pick her up, before then driving her down a dirt track to an isolated area of bushland where he stopped his car and assaulted her in the back seat.
At one point after his assault the victim saw Bray holding a mobile phone, possibly taking photographs.
He then drove the girl home, telling her not to tell anyone of his offending.
Once home the girl told a family member, who took her to the South East Regional Hospital where Bray's DNA was found on her body during a forensic examination.
Two days later, police executed a search warrant at the Wapengo property where Bray had been living with his co-accused.
The co-accused has pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a person under the age of 16, and two counts of aggravated sexual intercourse with a child aged between 14 and 16.
She will face trial in the Bega District Court on April 27 next year.
Judge Andrew Haesler adjourned Bray's matter on October 23 to February 21 next year to allow for a sentencing assessment report.
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