A DINGHY migrant aged 14 raped a teenage girl within three months of arriving here — but was allowed to walk free by a soft-touch judge if he took lessons on consent.
The Iranian boy must join an awareness programme as part of a sentence which shocked his victim’s devastated family, who hoped he would be jailed.
The teenager attacked the unsuspecting girl, also 14, last September, after they had been at the same school in Bedfordshire.
The youth, who was living in foster care and cannot be named, was convicted in January of rape and two counts of sexual assault and was sentenced in mid-March.
He had entered the country last June as an unaccompanied child migrant on a small boat, the boy’s trial had heard.
Records obtained by The Sun show that he was not sent to a young offender institution, as custody is considered a last resort in youth justice.
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He was given a rehabilitation order, despite the seriousness of his crimes. It includes a requirement for him to join specialist sessions “on the understanding of consent, boundaries, and victim awareness”.
He was also given a two-year exclusion order banning him from returning to the scene of the crime or the surrounding area.
Last night, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp demanded he be locked up and said custody was “the only option” for rapists.
It comes just three days after three men were convicted of a gang rape in Brighton, including Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, who was wanted for murder in his home country of Egypt.
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The boy and his victim had met at school before bumping into each other on September 23 last year.
He forcibly led the girl to a row of bushes by a skate park, where he then forced her to the ground.
Cassandra Roberts, prosecuting, revealed the attacker asked his victim to “do stuff” before overpowering the girl.
Ms Roberts said: “She was saying ‘Get off me’ and ‘No’, and this was ignored.”
In the hours after the rape, the teen brazenly wrote about the attack on social media.
The girl’s family are said to have been left stunned that he was not detained despite the brute showing no remorse for his vile crimes.
A source close to the family told The Sun on Sunday: “The victim’s family are furious. They’re outraged. This sentence is a total joke.
“There has been no punishment. This isn’t a deterrent at all. The rapist is still free and could just do it again.
“The victim has to carry this for the rest of her life, while he can just go out as if nothing has happened.”
Top Tory Mr Philp added: “This vile attacker should be locked up for his crimes. Custody should be the only punishment for rapists.
“These attacks continue to happen under this weak Labour Government who have lost control of our borders.
“The only way to fix this is the Conservative Party’s Borders plan — leave the ECHR so we can deport all illegal immigrants and foreign national offenders.”
There are no set sentencing guidelines for youths who are convicted of rape.
However, teenagers of the same age as the asylum seeker have been given as long as four years in young offenders’ units.
A Home Office spokeswoman said: “This was a sickening crime, and our thoughts are with the victim and her loved ones.
“Sentencing is a matter for the independent judiciary, but foreign nationals who commit these vile crimes will be deported at the earliest opportunity.”
Unaccompanied child asylum seekers are not generally deported as they have more legal protections than adults.
Britain does not deport criminals to Iran as the nation is too dangerous.
The Sun told on Friday how Brighton attacker Al-Danasurt had admitted in court to being on the run for murder.
His accomplices, Iranian Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, and Egyptian Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, were also guilty of two counts of rape.
They had all been housed at the three-star Cisswood House Hotel in Horsham, West Sussex, just miles from the scene of their sickening sex attack on a woman, who was drunk.
And yesterday we also reported that a paedophile migrant, who dragged a girl of seven into his hotel room, had been a member of the Taliban before fleeing Afghanistan.
Afsar Safi, 30, is still likely to be released from prison by the end of this year.
