Pervert jailed for eight years after raping 12-year-old girl he met on

Oscar Fitzgerald met his victim in September last year after chatting to her on social media.  He drove her to Lowestoft, Suffolk, were she was raped before being driven back near her home.

  The girl’s worried mother called police to report that she hadn’t seen her daughter for several hours on September 2.  Officers searching for the victim found her walking home and she told

them she had been raped.  A Suffolk Police spokesman said: "She described arriving at the address and being told to go upstairs. "She was then raped, despite her telling him to

stop, before being driven back and being dropped at a bus stop not far from her home. "Forensic evidence found at the scene supported the girl's account, as did other inquiries

made by officers." Police tracked Fitzgerald down at his home in Church Road, Lowestoft, by 2am the next day. Fitzgerald pleaded guilty to three counts of raping a girl under 13 at an

earlier hearing at Norwich Crown Court.   Detective Constable Stephen Clarke said: "I would like to commend the courage of the victim in this case who, despite being driven to the home

address of Fitzgerald and subjected to an abhorrent crime, provided officers with an immediate detailed account. "It was this prompt action that led officers being able to identify and

detain Fitzgerald at his home address. "As a result we have been able to remove a dangerous sexual offender from the street." Fitzgerald was placed on the sex offenders register

indefinitely.