A social worker who spent two hours using a mirror to look up a teenager's skirt in an Auckland library has failed to have his conviction quashed.
Abraham Rangi Turoa, 55, was sentenced to 15 months intensive supervision last year after admitting a charge of doing an indecent act in public.
But he came before the High Court at Auckland last week in a bid to have the conviction and sentence set aside.
The former community support worker at the Waipareira Trust walked into Henderson Library in August 2014 and sat opposite a teenage girl.
He positioned a small mirror between his legs and aimed it at her "genital area" while he pretended to read a book.