James Nigel Stephens is one of the reasons why the public has this negative perception of anabolic steroids. You see, this guy committed a despicable act and blame it on anabolic steroids! These criminals would blame everything else, except themselves, to avoid prison time.

Stephens, from Fairfield in southwest Sydney, pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated sexual assault and aggravated detention of a person for advantage over the incident at Waterloo, in Sydney.

Stephens got 14 years for what Australian media call “rampage of rape’ on a topless waitress on January 14, 2007. It was reported that Stephens attended a bucks’ party where the 22-year-old victim had worked. Stephens, then 18-year-old, stole her keys and later let himself into the car’s boot.

During sentencing submissions last month, Stephens’ attorney had declared his client had probably been under the influence of a “very, very nasty cocktail” of alcohol and steroids. Judge Michael Finnane of the New South Wales District Court, however, did not accept that as evidence.

“I must emphasize that I have no acceptable evidence that he drank to excess or that he consumed anabolic steroids,” the judge said.

The judge described to the court the nature of Stephens’ crime.

“What he did was horrifying in its cruelty,” he said.

“It was planned and calculated.

“He hid himself in the boot of her car and when she was alone, emerged suddenly, grabbed her from behind, threatening her with a plastic fork pressed to her neck, causing her to scream with fear.”

The teenager then forced the woman to pull over and raped her several times.

“Some of the offences had a sadistic quality to them and he showed, during the time of committing these offences, an attitude of contempt for the complainant and utter indifference to her suffering,” he said.

Stephens recorded parts of his assault on the victim.