An 11-year-old boy who had admitted raping a nine-year-old boy may have been affected by looking at gay pornography online, a court has heard.
The youngster, who also sexually assaulted two boys aged seven and 11, was found to have made computer searches for “gay rape”, “gay porn” and “gay rape porn”.
Preston crown court heard that the mother of the seven-year-old victim had found the attacker, from Blackpool, on top of her half-naked son.
Judge Mark Brown, who sentenced the boy to four years’ detention, said that the sexual assaults were committed in the bedroom of his nine-year-old victim “on a number of occasions over a period of some time” and that rapes had also taken place.
He told the youth: “That was a