Brutal. Vicious. Appalling. Savage. Relentless.

Judge Tim Preston spared no adjectives in sentencing Christopher Green to 12 years in prison for a May 2012 attack that left his innocent victim suffering 10 stab wounds to her face and another 20 stab wounds to her body.

Green, 20, pleaded guilty last week to one count of aggravated sexual assault.

"The public needs protection from Mr. Green," Preston said. "There is no explanation for his outrageous behaviour" and "explosion of brutality ... The offence could not be more serious or the offender more culpable."

The attack occurred on a northern Manitoba first nation. It is not being named to protect the identity of the victim.

Court heard the 24-year-old victim had fallen asleep in her home after drinking with friends. Her friends had left the house when she awoke to Green trying to kiss her. The woman tried to push Green away, setting off a vicious attack that saw her repeatedly stabbed with a pair of scissors as she passed in and out of consciousness.

Blood spatter and spray covered the floors and walls of the house. On a kitchen wall, Green wrote in blood: "I had fun."

When the woman tried to escape, Green dragged her to a ditch to continue the attack. The woman, half-naked and covered in blood, later crawled to her aunt's home.

"He kept me in the house and wouldn't let me go," the woman told her aunt. "He said I was attractive and raped me."

When arrested, Green told police "he was sorry, that he deserved (to be arrested) and he couldn't believe what he had done," court heard.

The woman remains severely traumatized from the attack, is fearful of men, and has prominent scars on her face.

"She will never be the same," Preston said.

At an earlier sentencing hearing, defence lawyer Mike Walker told court Green had an "unfortunate background" including time in 25 different foster homes and two suicide attempts. Preston ordered that Green be prohibited from possessing firearms for 10 years and that his name be included on the national sex offender registry for life.

The 18 months Green has already spent in custody will be deducted from his total sentence.

dean.pritchard@sunmedia.ca

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