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Emily Woods

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Horror rapist fresh out of jail when jogger attacked - Caught on Camera

Joel Russo has pleaded guilty to rape and sexual assault over an horrific attack on a woman. (Con Chronis/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A judge has labelled the abduction and repeated rape of a female jogger whose head was held under creek water as "a chamber of horrors".

Joel Russo, 28, pleaded guilty in Victoria's County Court to rape, sexual assault and conduct endangering a person, more than three years after he attacked a woman in Melbourne's north.

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