11.45am
Convicted sex offender Barry Allan Ryder was sentenced to preventive detention with a minimum non-parole of nine years at the High Court in Christchurch today.
Ryder, 34, of Christchurch, earlier admitted five charges of kidnapping, two of indecently assaulting boys under 12, one of having unlawful sexual connection with a boy,
and one of unlawful possession of a knife.
Ryder has earlier convictions for the kidnapping and attempted rape of a boy.
He was committed to Lake Alice Hospital in 1985 after he tried to rape and strangle two boys aged six and seven near Timaru.
The latest assaults dated from a year after Ryder was paroled with special conditions after serving 7-1/2 years of a nine-year sentence.
He was jailed in 1994 for the kidnap and attempted violation of an 11-year-old Wanganui boy at knifepoint.
He told police only the thought of losing his accommodation and cat and going back to jail had stopped him slitting the boy's throat.
The boy's mother said in March 2001 it would be madness to release Ryder.
Ryder's release from prison was thwarted twice -- in September 2000 when the Corrections Department requested he stay in custody, and in August 1996 when the Court of Appeal turned down his appeal.
In 1993, Lake Alice Hospital psychiatric nurse Neil Pugmire risked his job by warning that Ryder was too dangerous to be freed from the hospital's secure wing.
Despite the public outcry following the warning, Ryder was released under mental health laws. Within a short time he had committed the Wanganui offences.
Handing down the Court of Appeal's decision in 1996, Justice Henry said one of Ryder's problems was that he refused to continue his medication on becoming a voluntary patient.
A 1994 report on Ryder described him as having the problems of borderline intellectual retardation and paedophilia, the judge said.
He is of below average intelligence, and had been in 56 foster homes. His father died young and his siblings and mother were retarded.
After 21 years in state care, Ryder could not read, had no life skills, and lived on instant food.
Ryder first came to Social Welfare attention aged five. A psychiatrist described nine-year-old Ryder as "one of the most disturbed, impoverished and emotionally deprived children I have ever seen".
Act MP Deborah Coddington said Ryder would have been added to the central sex offender register after his first offences if her proposed legislation establishing such a register had been enacted years ago.
"We are decades too late to rescue many children from abuse at the hands of recidivist offenders," she said in a statement.
"But we are in time to save countless more children."
Miss Coddington's Sex Offenders Registry Bill was drawn out of Parliament's ballot last week and will soon be debated by Parliament.
- NZPA
11.45am
Convicted sex offender Barry Allan Ryder was sentenced to preventive detention with a minimum non-parole of nine years at the High Court in Christchurch today.
Ryder, 34, of Christchurch, earlier admitted five charges of kidnapping, two of indecently assaulting boys under 12, one of having unlawful sexual connection with a boy,
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