A cruel rapist who fathered a child with a 13-year-old girl and then refused to apologize to her has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Carvel Bennett, now74, of Erdington, Birmingham, admitted having sexual relations with the young adolescent in the 1970s, but claimed she initiated it, told him she was 16 at the time, and consented to it.

Carvel Bennett has been jailed for 11 years (Image: Birmingham Live / Mail)

But a jury took less than two hours to dismiss his account and find him guilty of rape at Birmingham Crown Court, after hearing the victim had turned 14 when she gave birth to a baby girl.

DNA results later proved Bennett was the father and the girl had been put up for adoption.

At the sentencing hearing the victim's daughter, who was born as a result of the rape, took to the witness box to read out her impact statement.

She told the court: "Carvel Bennett you have caused total carnage. Your act of violence decimated any potential relationship between my birth mother and me because you chose to rape a child.

You have got to have a family life, had the opportunity to get married, live with children and see them grow up.

"Because you raped a child I only had seven days at the hospital with my birth mother."

"I read my grandmother visited and thought I looked like you.

"Imagine how it felt for my 14-year-old mother to look down to see the features of her perpetrator.

"I was left in hospital for three days before being placed with my foster family.

"Who cared for me in that time I will never know. How terrifying. How traumatic."

She added: "I know I exist because you chose to rape a child, to know I'm, for some, the embodiment of one of the worst things to happen, to be pregnant by your perpetrator, to find out what happened to my mother was horrific.

"It could have been a reason for her not to meet me. That horrendous thought weighed heavy until we were able to reunite.

"I am more than evidence, more than a witness, more than a product of rape. I am not your shame."

Judge Martin Hurst sentenced Bennett to 11 years and told him he will need to serve two thirds of the term in custody before being released on licence.

He was also told he would have to sign the sex offenders for life.

Judge Hurst did not impose a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) saying Bennet had not offended since 1975, he also took into account how old Bennett will be if he is ever released from prison.