Rotorua courthouse. Photo / File
A registered child sex offender who put a mobile phone up the skirt of a shopper in a Rotorua store will spend 18 months behind bars.
Electrician John Andrew Parahi, 56, appeared in the Rotorua District Court this morning before Judge Paul Mabey QC.
He pleaded guilty to four charges
in May, including doing an indecent act, attempting to make a visual recording of another person, being a registered offender and failing to comply with reporting obligations by not reporting a new cellphone number and breaching extended supervision orders.
The summary of facts said on March 3, a woman aged over 16 who wasn't known to Parahi, was in a Rotorua department store when he followed her for 10 minutes.
As she walked down one of the aisles she saw Parahi behind her and noticed he pulled out a mobile phone from his pocket, the summary said.
