The father of convicted child-murderer Jules Pierre Mikus has been committed to stand trial for 13 sexual abuse charges dating back to the 1960s and 1970s.
The charges against Jules Gyula Mikus, aged 74, relate to two female complainants who during the ten years of alleged abuse were aged under 12
years, and between 12 and 16 years.
All the alleged offences took place in Wainuiomata, near Wellington, between 1964 and 1974.
Mikus, a Hungarian national who lives near Tauranga, faces six charges of committing an indecent act and six of rape.
In a depositions hearing that lasted all day in the Lower Hutt District Court, Judge Bruce Davidson told Mikus there was enough evidence to put him on trial.
"I'm not guilty," Mikus told the court.
Judge Davidson remanded him on bail.
In November last year Jules Pierre Mikus was sentenced to preventive detention - the harshest penalty the High Court can impose - for the 1987 rape and murder of Napier schoolgirl Teresa Cormack.
