Judge rules Penticton rapist is a dangerous offender

WATCH: After a vicious assault of a Penticton woman in 2011, David Bobbitt has been declared a dangerous offender and had been sentenced to jail indefinitely. Angela Jung reports.

PENTICTON – A Penticton man has been declared a dangerous offender by a B.C. Supreme Court judge.

The ruling was delivered Friday morning at the sentencing hearing of David Wesley Bobbitt.

He had pleaded guilty to several charges in the brutal, sexual assault of a 22-year-old woman inside his second hand store in July 2011.

She was struck on the back of her head with a hammer and dragged to the rear of the store, tied to a bed, and beaten and sexually assaulted in a prolonged attack.

Bobbitt also threatened the life of the woman’s toddler son who was found naked from the waist down and in a blood-stained T-shirt when police entered the building.

Bobbitt was arrested three days later in the Oliver area where he had been hiding in an orchard.

During the dangerous offender hearing, the court heard from a woman who testified Bobbitt raped her inside his home in 2007.

Charges were not laid in that alleged incident.

Therefore, prosecutors had to prove that it did happen. The judge says Crown Counsel proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Bobbitt confined and sexually assaulted the second victim.

Bobbitt, 39, will be imprisoned indefinitely.

The judge called Bobbitt the “very definition of a psychopath”.

In his ruling, Mr. Justice Peter Rogers noted Bobbitt isn’t willing to seek psychological help.

“Any genuine desire to make changes is completely absent. There’s no reason to expect motivation for treatment in the foreseeable future,” said the judge.