An Indian national who was jailed for raping a 14-year-old girl in the bush behind his local temple will not be deported because of "exceptional circumstances of a humanitarian nature".
The 22-year-old, who was 14 at the time of the rape, was in 2013 jailed for three and a half years for rape.
However, he was released on parole just over a year later because he found prison "frightening" and had become severely depressed.
He appealed to the Immigration and Protection Tribunal after learning he would be sent back to India at the end of his sentence on the grounds his deportation would be devastating.
After the rape in 2008, the girl's father agreed with the boy's mother not to report it to police as long as the boy returned to India indefinitely.