A TEENAGER with learning difficulties has described being lured to a supermarket and raped in its baby changing room.
The 16-year-old told a court that the attack happened at Morrisons in Loughton after she was led there by Kyle Tyrone Dacosta, 20, from Markhouse Road in Walthamstow.
The jury at Chelmsford Crown Court heard that she first met Dacosta at a friend’s party last year before befriending him on Facebook.
About a week later, on the evening of February 24, she said she and Dacosta arranged to meet up at a youth centre in Loughton before going to a cafe in nearby Loughton High Road.
While there, Dacosta bought her a milkshake and a hot chocolate for himself and showed her some comic books.
The girl said: “He went off and I followed him.
“I did not know where we were going. I think he was planning something.
“He said he wanted to show me something. He talked to me and said he wanted to show me the manga (comic books) in Morrisons.
“I don’t know why but I sort of believed him.”
Once at the supermarket Dacosta took her into the changing room and locked the door behind them, before removing his bandana, blindfolding her with it and telling her not to take it off.
“I tried to take the headscarf off and asked him why he was doing this,” she said.
“He said he wanted me to lose my virginity.
“I did not want to lose it to someone I do not really like, but to someone I love.
“I tried to leave and he would not let me. I was talking loud because I wanted someone to know that something was not right in the baby changing room.
“He told me to shut up.”
She said that Dacosta went on to sexually assault and rape her.
Afterwards he walked her home and chatted with her about his family.
Dacosta denies two counts of rape, one of assault by sexual penetration and one of false imprisonment.
The trial continues.
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