A man has been jailed for ten years for the drunken rape of a girl in Bradford.

The terrified youngster later gave birth on the living floor of her home after keeping her pregnancy secret in shame of the attack.

Her horrified mother delivered the boy at 4am one day last April after her daughter called to her for help, Bradford Crown Court was told.

Tonderal Chakanyuka, 31, stood impassively in the dock at Bradford Crown Court yesterday as his barrister said “the dreadful affair” had destroyed lives.

The Zimbabwean, of Canterbury Avenue, Canterbury, Bradford, admitted forcing himself on the girl, who was a virgin, and having unprotected sex with her.

Prosecutor Nikki Peers said Chakanyuka had pleaded guilty to the offence of raping a child under 13 after he was trapped by DNA evidence.

Miss Peers said the girl, who cannot be identified, had not dared tell her mother that she had been raped but she had confided to a friend that she had had sex.

Shortly before last Christmas, she feared she might be pregnant after feeling something moving inside her. The frightened girl hid her secret from her family for several months more.

The court was told that her mother only discovered she was pregnant when alerted by her daughter’s call for help she went downstairs to find her lying on the sofa with the baby’s head visible.

The mother, who also cannot be identified, called an ambulance and delivered the infant on the living room floor as her distraught daughter cried: “I’m so sorry, Mum.”

Staff at Bradford Royal Infirmary called the police after the girl’s mother told them what had happened, Miss Peers said.

A paternity test proved Chakanyuka was the father of the baby, the court heard.

He was arrested two days after the birth and told police he could not remember having sex with the girl.

Abraham Verghese, Chakanyuka’s barrister, conceded that the “very, very, serious and disquieting” case had destroyed the life of the girl and others.

“I apologise on his behalf for this dreadful situation that has happened,” Mr Verghese said.

“The lives of several people have been destroyed. It is a most dreadful affair.”

Judge Roger Scott said the girl’s victim impact statement revealed she could no longer go to school or see her friends. She was now estranged from her mother and her baby was going into foster care.

“Goodness knows what will happen to him,” the judge said.

Jailing Chakanyuka, Judge Scott condemned his actions and said the case was aggravated because the girl had become pregnant and her mother had to deliver the baby on the living room floor.

“The whole thing could not conceivably be worse,” Judge Scott said.

Chakanyuka was put on the Sex Offenders’ Register for the rest of his life. An indefinite Sexual Offences Prevention Order was made against him and he was barred for life from working with children.

After the case, the girl’s distressed mother, who was in court to see Chakanyuka jailed, said the sentence was not long enough.