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Northland sexual predator jailed for 18 years

By Imran Ali
Northern Advocate·
17 Aug, 2014 08:28 PM2 mins to read

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A Northland man has been jailed for 18 years for repeatedly abusing three young girls in his care for nearly a decade, including multiple rapes.

The 48-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was found guilty in the Whangarei District Court by a jury on six charges of indecent assault on a child under 12, two of rape, two of assaulting a child under 14 and one of indecently assaulting a girl under 16.

He offended between January 2001 and October 2010 at addresses in Northland and Auckland, when the complainants were pre-teens.

The man was in a de facto relationship with the girls' biological grandmother when he sexually and physically abused them.

His actions first came to light in 2006 but no action was taken until one of the complainants gave a second interview to police last year.

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The first abuse was perpetrated when one of the girls was between four 4 and 5 years old.

While sentencing him, Judge Keith de Ridder said that on one occasion the man took exception to the behaviour of one of his victims and made her stand in front of the TV for so long that she ended up urinating on the floor.

The man then rubbed her face in the urine before taking her to the shower, where he assaulted her.

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Judge de Ridder cited a gross breach of trust. He said the girls were vulnerable, given the man's predatory behaviour.

He said the man's own upbringing was extremely fraught but that did not in any way justify or mitigate his offending.

Defence lawyer Chris Muston objected to the Crown's application for a minimum non-parole period but Judge de Ridder said the issues of accountability, denunciation, deterrence and protection of the public were not met by not imposing such a sentence.

He ordered the man to serve eight years in jail before he was eligible for parole.

It emerged at the trial that the man began raping the elder sibling when she was 11 years old and stopped only when she was about 17. He told her not to tell anyone about the sexual abuse because it was "her and papa's secret".

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