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A 75-year-old raped a schoolgirl (14) and got her pregnant (1999 Skegness news story)
A PENSIONER who raped a 14-year-old Skegness schoolgirl and made her pregnant was jailed for six years at Lincoln Crown Court.
A jury of six men and six women took just two hours to find 75-year-old Christopher Stevens guilty of three charges of raping the girl between June 1997 and May 1998.
Terrible shock
Giving evidence, the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told a jury of the shock she felt when she fell pregnant after the final time Stevens raped her.
The girl, now 15, said: “It was a terrible shock when I found out I was pregnant.
“When I told him I hadn’t come on my periods he started giving me a hard time. He said if you’re pregnant don’t tell your mum who the father is.”
During the trial the girl claimed Stevens forced her to have sex with him between 15 and 20 times.
The girl described to the jury how on one occasion Stevens lured her into the bedroom of his bungalow and then raped her.
The girl told the jury Stevens never used any contraception and bribed her with money to play on the arcades to keep quiet.
The court heard the girl told her boyfriend about Stevens’ behaviour when she realised she was pregnant.
The police were called but during interview Stevens formerly of Winthorpe Way, Winthorpe, and now of McCleod Street, Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland, denied having sex with the girl.
Giving evidence on the third day of the trial Stevens said he had sex with the girl on one occasion but claimed she made the first move.
Stevens said he was disgusted with himself afterwards, adding: “I was ashamed, but she consented to it. I was afraid she might tell her mother.”

Stevens denied prosecution suggestions he lied to the police and then changed his story when medical evidence made it clear he was the baby’s father.
Asked by Mr Farrell if he accepted he was the baby’s father, Stevens replied: “Yes, I do.”
Michael Dutchman-Smith, mitigating, told the court Stevens had no previous convictions and urged Judge Richard Hutchinson to take his age into account.
Mr Dutchman-Smith said: “Clearly the only mitigation we can put before your honour is his age. The fact that he is 75 years of age. His life as he has known it ends today.”
Sentencing Stevens to six years’ imprisonment concurrent on each count, Judge Richard Hutchinson told him he was lucky to avoid a much longer sentence.
Judge Hutchinson said: “The sentence I am going to give you is not the one your behaviour deserves or what you would get if you were a man of normal age.
The court heard Stevens was born in Cyprus and lived in London and Scotland before moving to Skegness in 1997.

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