A vile sexual predator forced his way into a young mum's home and raped her in front of her hysterical children. John Ward, 24, first molested the shocked woman as she walked the family dog with her young child along a street in Rochdale, telling the youngster: "I'm your new dad." She managed to flee but drunken Ward, also high on cocaine, pursued her, forced his way inside her home, pushed her onto the stairs and covered her mouth with his hand as he carried out a series of sickening and violent sexual assaults on her.
He slammed a living room door on her terrified children who screamed in terror, one of them shouting in vain for Ward to 'get off' their mother as she was being attacked in the hallway.
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