A 10-YEAR-OLD Austrian boy has been brutally raped at a public swimming pool by an Iraqi migrant, who told police the attack was a “sexual emergency”.

The attack occurred on December 22, when the boy was dragged into the change rooms by the 20-year-old migrant at the swimming pool in Vienna, Breitbart reports.

According to local news site Kronen Zeitung, the boy screamed for somebody to help but nobody heard him.

Afterwards, the young boy confided in a lifeguard about what had happened, while the Iraqi man continued to swim at the pool, diving off the three-metre board.

Police arrested the man at the scene and the boy was taken to hospital with severe internal injuries. The attacker told the police the rape was more or less out of frustration, dubbing it a “sexual emergency”.

Kronen Zeitung reported the man said he had not had sex for four months and had an excess of sexual energy. He admitted it was a huge mistake and knew it would scar the boy.

Police asked the man if it was against the law to have sex with 10-year-old boys in Iraq. “Such a thing is forbidden in any country of the world,” he said.

The man claimed to have sex with women but had not been intimate with his wife since the birth of their daughter, and she still lived in Iraq.

Police said the man entered Austria in September via the Balkans.