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Warning: This story contains disturbing details about sexual assaults involving a minor.

A Victoria man has been sentenced to five years in prison for twice sexually assaulting a teenage girl – one of four minors he was convicted of targeting over an eight-month period in 2018.

Peter John Hooper, 49, was sentenced last month for two counts of sexual assault and two counts of sexual interference involving the same teenage victim in 2018.

The court heard that Hooper met the girl, who had dropped out of school, in June 2018, when she was 14 years old and abusing street drugs in downtown Victoria.

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The victim and two other people got into a car with Hooper that month, and the four of them drove to various locations in Victoria to buy and smoke methamphetamine, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jan Brongers wrote in her decision.

Hooper eventually drove the group to a motorhome in the Bear …

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