A maximum youth sentence of two years in custody followed by a year of supervision in the community doesn’t come close to holding a remorseless young Winnipeg street gang member to account for brutally raping and robbing a woman after he randomly busted into her Fort Richmond home looking for cash.

That’s the position of Manitoba Justice, which has kicked off a complex legal process in hopes of seeing the now 18-year-old man sentenced as an adult on charges of aggravated sexual assault and house break enter to commit robbery — allegations a Crown prosecutor described Tuesday as “the most serious, short of murder.”

Disturbing facts of the July 9, 2011 incident were revealed for the first time in court this week as Crown attorney Dan Angus made his bid in hopes of seeing the man locked in adult prison for a lengthy, undisclosed term. The teen pleaded guilty to the charges at a previous date.

His crimes were committed just a few weeks prior to his 18th birthday.

Court heard the victim, then 27, was beaten and robbed of $55 after she confronted the man breaking in through a second-floor window. She pushed him back from one window only to see him persist and come in through another.

After viciously pummelling her and robbing her of $55, he threw her to the floor, beat her some more with his fists and brutally sexually assaulted her.

“Just let me love you,” the victim reported her attacker as saying, according to Angus.

“You’re raping me,” the terrified woman replied.

“Just let me rape you then,” he said.

The teen fled the crime scene by diving through a window after the woman’s husband came rushing home. The woman had phoned him as the teen was breaking in and her husband heard part of the attack.

Police arrested the teen nearby in a pool of his own blood. He initially told them he was “drunk as f---” and had blacked out after falling through a window.

In a heart-wrenching victim impact statement read to Judge Ray Wyant, the woman described through tears how her life has been turned completely upside down.

She now lives in fear in a new home and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, court heard.

“I hate that I can’t get the attack out of my mind,” the woman said, calling the attack and her attacker “pure evil.”

The reedy-looking young man stared blankly as she read her statement Tuesday. At other times during the hearing he appeared to doze off.

At the time he attacked her, the man was subject to two supervised probation orders stemming from a series of youth convictions for thefts, breaking and entering and several court-order breaches.

Angus called the crime a “senseless, violent and brutal attack” — one which the Youth Criminal Justice Act can’t appropriately punish given the man’s record, conduct and character. To this day the man lacks empathy and remorse for his crimes, Angus said.

“He doesn’t understand what he did,” he said.

Defence lawyer Jay Funke is pushing for the man to become only the 15th youth in Manitoba to receive what’s called an Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision (IRCS) sentence.

The rare designation provides extra funding and allows a young offender access to a greater amount of programming and therapy while in custody or serving the community-based portion of a YCJA sentence.

Wyant was handed a multitude of psychological and pre-sentencing reports outlining the man’s ghastly and challenged upbringing, one compounded by substance abuse problems and involvement with a south Winnipeg gang.

“If all we do is take a young man with significant needs and warehouse him ... eventually he’s going to get out. If we don’t address the variety of problems, all we’re doing is forestalling the inevitable,” said Funke.

Corrections officials deemed the man a “very high risk to reoffend,” and he falls into the “top 12 percentile” of risk for adult male sex offenders, court heard.

Sentencing was adjourned for Wyant to hear further arguments at a later date.

TIMELINE OF YOUNG PUNK'S ACTIONS

June 2010: Teen is sentenced for thefts and breaches for failing curfew and not living where he’s supposed to. He’s given probation.

July 2010: Commits break and enter on Allegheny Drive. Homeowner finds him passed out drunk on a couch at 2:40 a.m.

September 2010: Teen is moved to a rural group home in hopes of keeping him out of trouble. He’s caught breaking into trailers. He enters guilty pleas and is sent to a treatment centre.

Nov. 11, 2010: He walks away from the centre after six days and is missing for weeks.

March 8, 2011: Youth is sentenced to 41 days time served and more probation for the slew of break and enters.

April 18, 2011: Re-arrested for curfew breach after cops find him drunk at 12:30 a.m. in Fort Richmond. He’s ordered to serve 25 hours of community service.

May 9-24, 2011: Teen’s probation officer gets warrant because of his noncompliance with court orders.

June 7, 2011: Cops find teen hiding under an air conditioner and arrest him for breaking curfew. He’s released.

June 11, 2011: Found drunk at a convenience store. He’s released.

July 9, 2011: Viciously rapes and robs woman in her Fort Richmond home.