Preventive term for repeat sex offender
A repeat sex offender has begun an open-ended preventive detention term after failing to address his continuing offending.
Mana Tengu Tamaiparea was given preventive detention with a minimum term of five years in the Christchurch High Court today.
The 48-year-old was sentenced on a charge of indecent assault on a girl aged between 12 and 16, after he pleaded guilty just before his trial.
In the historic case, Justice David Gendall said Tamaiperea repeatedly touched the girl’s breasts and genitals.
He said it had had a lasting psychological impact on the girl, and her victim impact report made very sad reading.
Tamaiparea had previous convictions for violent and sexual offending, but denied all the sexual offending he had already been in prison for, and also for this latest charge.
He told his report writers that he pleaded guilty because he wanted to save the victim the ordeal of a trial, Justice Gendall said.
He sentenced Tamaiparea to prison for three years seven months, and said the Crown was seeking preventive detention because of his serious history of offending, and his denials that the events occurred.
A psychological report said he declined to discuss the sexual offending, but admitted the violent offending, and he was at a high risk of re-offending without treatment.
Justice Gendall said Tamapairea failed to address the sexual offending, despite previous convictions and guilty plea now, and children and the community needed to be protected from him.
He granted the Crown’s application for a preventive detention sentence.
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