A 76-year-old man has admitted historical sexual offences involving a girl while she was a toddler and later a teenager.
He also pleaded guilty to sexually violating his dog during a two-year period.
Through his defence lawyer Jock Blathwayt, Gilbert James Wilson aka Jim Wilson, pleaded guilty to nine representative charges including indecencies with a girl under 12 years old and a dog when he appeared before Judge Tony Walsh in Masterton District Court yesterday.
He pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent assaulting a girl, two of unlawful sexual connection with a girl; all between January 1970 and June 1986. He also admitted to a charge of raping the same woman between 1986 and 1992; one of indecently assaulting a woman; one of sodomy; and one representative count of indecencies with a dog between January 1980 and June 1982.
The charges are all representative, meaning there was more than one incident involved with each charge.
Wilson, who appeared in court seated on an electric mobility chair, was remanded in custody and Judge Walsh lifted interim name suppression.
The police summary of facts, provided to the Times-Age by the court, states that in 1970, when the victim was a pre-schooler he became sexually interested in her and soon began experimenting. While the girl was attending primary school, Wilson and the girl were at a relative's birthday party, Wilson called her over to sit on his knee and abused her while she was fully clothed.
The girl recalls Wilson being controlling; and waiting for her at lunch time outside her school "to keep an eye on her".
She was made to touch Wilson on many occasions. He took her on secluded walks where his offending continued.
The offending graduated to him forcing her to perform oral sex on him to rape at age 11, ignoring her constant pleas to stop.
He convinced her what he was doing was okay.
"He told the young girl that what was occurring was her fault because she continued to come with him," the court heard.
On one occasion when the girl was a teenager, he locked her in the toilet with him where he forced her to have sex with him while he sat on the toilet seat. Young children played outside in the hallway while the abuse went on.
He also introduced the girl to pornography and sex toys.
Indecencies with the dog happened for two years during 1980-1982.
Mr Blathwayt did not make an application for bail for Wilson.
Judge Walsh remanded Wilson in custody for a pre-sentence report and sentencing on February 27.