The defendant, who came to the UK on a small boat four months before the offences, showed no emotion and stared ahead at barristers and the judge during the hearing, appearing to be listening intently to his interpreter.
Defending Mulakhil, Marcus Harry said he arrived in the UK when he was 22 after fleeing Afghanistan.
“He was planning on attending university to study economics but for a variety of reasons, he came under the focus of the Taliban, as did his family, and that is the reason he ultimately fled the country,” he said.
The judge said her sentence reached the threshold for Mulakhil to be deported after it had been served.
He was also given an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order and an indefinite restraining order preventing him from contacting the victim.
The judge said factors including that Mulakhil had abducted the girl and taken her to a secluded location as well as the harm she had suffered gave a “very significant uplift” to the sentence time.
But she also took into account his age, that he had no previous convictions and his guilty plea to one offence.
He was given concurrent sentences for his crimes, including four years for child abduction and two for taking an indecent video.
Mulakhil faced trial alongside Mohammad Kabir, also an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, who was acquitted of all charges.
