A PERVERT who raped a young mum and molested her baby daughter during months of sickening abuse has been jailed for ten years.

Kevin Carne, of Priory Court, Walthamstow, indecently assaulted the tiny girl when she was less than a year old.

The 23-year-old subjected the family to the appalling abuse when they were living on an estate in Leyton.

The Old Bailey heard how he staged rape attacks on the mother three times and was proud when he appeared to have injured her.

Judge Harold Wilson told Carne: "The offences against her injured her and degraded her."

In a series of events too vile to report, Carne molested the baby girl over a six-month period.

When the mother accused him of being a pervert Carne said: "I was only messing around."

He insisted he had not touched the woman or her children and said the allegations against him were spiteful lies.

But he was convicted of three counts of rape, one attempted rape and two indecent assaults on the young mum by a jury.

He was also found guilty of two indecent assaults on the baby girl. Carne was cleared of two charges of making threats to kill, four indecent assaults and two of cruelty to a child.

Those charges included allegations that he had burnt the girl and her brother with a cigarette lighter and whipped them with the lead from a mobile telephone charger.

The abuse came to light when the woman took out a court injunction against him.

Before sentencing last Thursday the judge said: "The indecent assaults on the infant involved a gross breach of trust and involved an absence of conduct from which ordinary, decent minds recoil."

Carne received eight-year sentences on each rape charge, three years for the attempted rape and five years for the indecent assaults on the young mum, all to run concurrently.

He was also given concurrent two-year terms for each indecent assault on the baby.