A 52-year-old Pakuranga man who committed "terribly humiliating and horrendous acts from a position of trust" has been sentenced to two years and 10 months' jail.
Tudor Trevor Owen, a quality controller, had pleaded guilty to two charges of indecently assaulting a boy under 16, one charge of inducing a
boy under 16 to do an indecent act, and one charge of doing an indecent act with intent to offend. The charges relate to events during 1981 and 1982.
In the Auckland District Court yesterday, Judge Avinash Deobhakta said that what had happened to the victim "could not really be described in words."
Owen had formed a relationship of trust with the victim, who was the son of a couple he knew well, before the sexual acts began.
The victim, aged between 10 and 11 at the time of offending, had been left with indelible scars, Judge Deobhakta said.
"It is correct that time heals wounds but these are not the kind of wounds that can be healed quickly," he said.
Defence lawyer Roger Chambers said Owen himself had been subjected to abuse at a similar age to that of his victim. "One of those great tragedies of life is that this sort of act seems destined to be perpetuated," he said.
Mr Chambers said Owen accepted he had a problem and that he would go to jail.
Crown prosecutor Deb Bell said there were several aggravating features to the offending. They were the age of the victim, the breach of trust, the length of the period of offending, the seriousness of the offending, and the effect on the victim. She said the victim's life had been seriously affected by the abuse.
Judge Deobhakta said memories of the abuse had been stirred for the victim by Owen's convictions earlier this year for sex offences.
Owen's "inordinate thirst for porn" had led to his earlier convictions and the sentence this time had to reflect the gravity of his actions.
