A refugee who repeatedly raped a woman in front of her children over a three year period has learned his fate.
Mohammed Ali Ahmad-Rezaei, 46, was sentenced to more than 21 years jail in theDistrict Court in Adelaide on Monday after a jury last year found him guilty of five counts of rape.
The Iranian refugee was also found guilty of single counts of threatening to distribute an invasive image, aggravated threatening harm and threatening a person involved in a criminal proceeding.
The sentence is one of the longest ever handed in South Australia against an offender who has committed rape against a single victim.
The court heard that Ahmad-Rezaei repeatedly raped a woman, often within the close vicinity of her children between 2017 and 2020.
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Mohammed Ali Ahmad-Rezaei (pictured) was sentenced to 21 years behind bars in Adelaide's District Court on Monday, after a jury found him guilty on five counts of rape last year
During one of those incidents, the woman became pregnant.
Ahmad-Rezaei, who fled Iran in 2011 over fears of being persecuted, also threatened to distribute explicit images of the woman when she tried to defend herself on one occasion.
He also threatened to run over her eldest daughter with a car.
The woman relived the ordeal in a harrowing a victim impact statement, where she detailed how the physical and emotional abuse inflicted on her had made her life a 'living nightmare'.
Judge Leisl Kudelka said the eldest daughter of the woman, witnessed the aftermath of the incident when her mother was raped, the Adelaide Advertiser reported.
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The Iranian refugee raped the woman on multiple occasions, in front of her youngest daughter and had also threatened to run her eldest daughter over in a car (stock image)
Mohammed Ali Ahmad-Rezaei (pictured) was also found guilty of single counts of threatening to distribute an invasive image, aggravated threatening harm and threatening a person involved in a criminal proceeding.
Judge Kudekla said Ahmad-Rezaei raped the woman on several occasions in front of her youngest daughter, while the woman covered her daughter's eyes as she wept during her horrifying ordeal.
The judge slammed Ahmad-Rezaei who complained that he felt alone in jail after he was taken into policy custody last November when he was found guilty by a jury
'You terrorised your victim sexually, physically, mentally, and emotionally, and you say you're isolated in jail,' Judge Kudelka said.
'She told the court that, in her culture, there's no value for women and, if a father or brother (sees a sex video) they can kill their daughter or sister … they can behead her, the government can stone her to death.
'How isolated do you think she felt?'
Ahmad-Rezaei's victim watched the sentence hearing via videolink.
