Internet sex predator admits all charges
Internet sex predator Karl Sheridan Salmon has admitted eight charges in the High Court at Christchurch, adding to six guilty pleas on similar charges in July.
Salmon, 21, today admitted four charges of sexual connection with a young person, one of blackmail, doing an indecent act on a young person, threatening to kill, and possession of an objectionable publication.
The charges relate to four girls and were said to have been committed in North Canterbury last year and early this year.
Justice Cameron Mander remanded Salmon in custody for sentence on November 12 and ordered a pre-sentence report.
Defence counsel Andrew McCormick then asked for a psychiatric report under the Criminal Procedures (Mentally Impaired Persons) Act to be prepared ahead of Salmon’s sentencing.
That request was supported by Crown prosecutor Claire Boshier who said it might assist with rehabilitation and the protection of the community.
Justice Mander then agreed to ask for the additional report for the sentencing.
In July, Salmon admitted a charge of sexual connection with a 14-year-old girl he met over the social media site Facebook. He admitted making threats to kill her by text message and over another social media site, Snapchat.
The threats led to the girl revealing her situation to her mother and a complaint being made to the police. Salmon was arrested soon after in February, and has been held in custody since.
He admitted making objectionable publications – videos of the sex taking place with the 14-year-old girl – and making threats to kill two other girls, and one of their boyfriends. Those girls, aged 14 and 15, had met Salmon over Facebook.
The sixth of those charges involves possession of objectionable images of an underage girl.
The blackmail charge today says he tried to force a girl into sending him an intimate photograph by threatening to put a video of her having sex online.
The threat to kill in another charge admitted today was delivered over Facebook.
Salmon has now admitted all the remaining charges against him. After the guilty pleas, the Crown withdrew five other charges.
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