A 20-year-old man has been jailed for 7 years 11 months for raping his cousin in February last year.
He raped the cousin when she was living with them in Nasinu.
It was heard in court that the man used force on the victim to overpower her as she was sleeping and raped her.
The court heard that the man committed the offence when the house was empty.
In his sentence, High Court Judge Justice Vinsent Perera
said the man exploited the vulnerability of the victim as at the time of the offence she was not under the care and protection of a guardian and did not have a proper place of residence.
Justice Perera also considered that the man was a young first offender.
A non parole period of 3 years 11 months has been set.
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