A Rotorua sports coach has been sentenced for indecently assaulting a 12-year-old boy.
In the Rotorua District Court today Judge Phillip Cooper sentenced Pamela Kulukulu Purdie, 24, to nine months' home detention.
He noted her continued denial of her offending, her former work as a coach and teacher's aide and the disparity of ages between herself and her victim.
Purdie was found guilty by a jury in March for doing an indecent act on a 12-year-old boy and indecently assaulting him when she climbed into the bed he was sharing with another boy during a sleepover at her home.
She was found not guilty of exposing seven boys to indecent material.