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A man who climbed through a 12-year-old girl’s bedroom window and sexually assaulted her two years ago will serve another five years and seven months in prison.

Antonio Eduardo Daponte, 46, was sentenced in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster Tuesday for break and enter with intent to commit an indictable offence and aggravated sexual assault.

On May 4, 2009 Daponte sexually assaulted the girl, who was sleeping her Coquitlam home, threatened her with a knife and put a pillow over her face. The attack ended when the girl screamed and fought back, waking her parents. Her hand was cut by Daponte’s knife.

Daponte has a criminal record that spans 21 years and includes mostly property offences, drug offences and breaches of court orders.

He had two open cases out of Surrey and Richmond at the time of the sexual assault.

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On Tuesday Justice Bruce Greyell sentenced Daponte to 10 years in prison, reduced by four years, five months of credit for time already spent in custody. Daponte will also be listed on the Sex Offender Information Registry for life and subject to a firearms prohibition.

Because of his extensive criminal history, and in spite of being a permanent resident of Canada for most of his life, Daponte is facing deportation to Portugal.