A YOUNG Mildura mother feared she was going to be raped by a man who forced his way into her house while armed with a knife as her young child slept nearby, a court has been told.

The Mildura Magistrates' Court heard 30-year-old Chad Thomas Wells, of no fixed address, had been wandering the streets of Mildura when he made a spur of the moment decision to attend the property, but has denied that h...