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The asylum seeker from Iraq, only named as Amir A, claimed that it was a "sexual emergency" when he attacked the schoolboy last December in Vienna.

The child was swimming at the pool by himself when he befriended a 15-year-old boy, who was with the 20-year-old Iraqi man.

When the boy left to go in the showers after his swim, Amir, who is a father-of-one and married, allegedly followed him.

He then pushed the boy into the toilet where he assaulted him, the court heard.