A dad-of-four groomed three teenage girls online and plied them with booze before raping one of them under a pier in Blackpool.
A court heard how married Cristian Piscurianu had told the teenagers he was 18 years old when they were aged 13 and 15 and 'not worldly wise'.
He had been in the UK for 'a matter of weeks' when he first began grooming the girls, who had been hanging around a supermarket.
The 26-year-old, who was aged 22 at the time, tried to persuade the girls to perform oral sex on him in March 2019. Preston Crown Court heard that two of the girls were able to say no, but Piscurianu took the other to the beach and forced himself on her.
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