Outrage as rapist 'demands paternal visitation rights to the child he fathered with victim when she was just 14'

A man who raped a 14-year-old girl and got her pregnant is now allegedly demanding visitation rights for the child.

The man, then 20, met his victim at church when she was in the eighth grade, and had sex with her, My Fox Boston reported.

His victim's mother discovered what had happened and reported the crime to the police.

The victim met her rapist at church and he fathered their child - which he is now seeking visitation rights for

By that time her daughter was already pregnant and decided to keep the baby as she believed it to be 'innocent', the website reported.

The Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to four accounts of statutory rape on four counts in 2009.

The victim’s mother told Fox 25. 'She decided to keep her baby. And now she has to hand her baby over for a visit with her rapist?'

The girl said her rapist had threatened her and promised to destroy her life: 'He told me that he could make my life upside down, and I wouldn’t have anybody and he would pin it all on me. So I was scared.'

The unidentified rapist was sentenced by Norfolk Superior Court Judge Thomas McGuire to 16 years probation in 2011, after prosecutors tried to have him jailed for three to five years.

Wendy Murphy is the victim's attorney, and questions how a toddler could be given a relationship with their mother's rapist

Part of the probation arrangement demanded he acknowledge he is the baby’s father and follow probate and family court rules, according to My Fox News station.

The law requires him to pay child support — but also entitles him to seek visitation rights.

Now the man has allegedly asked for visitation rights, but the teenage mother says he has 'never cared' about her three-year-old toddler until now, Fox 25 reported.

The man's legal representative refused to comment on the requests to see his child, but said the initial relationship between the victim and his client was consensual.

The teenage mother's attorney Wendy Murphy told the NY Daily News that she had asked the Superior Court judge to amend the sentencing conditions.

Ms Murphy has filed a motion asking that the rapist would pay 'restitution' instead of child support, which would deny him access to the child through family court.

She has also asked that he be made to stay away from the child and mother.

A shocked Ms Murphy questioned why a criminal court had 'punished' the father with potential parental rights, NY Daily News reported.

She said allowing the man access to family courts he could have the chance to influence the child's upbringing.

Ms Murphy, who teaches classes on sexual violence at New England Law-Boston, told NY Daily News:'This family has been very clear from the beginning that they want nothing to do with this guy.