90-year-old sentenced on historic sex charge
A 90-year-old has been sentenced to three months’ home detention for sex offending dating back up to 53 years on a woman who has died since the complaint was made.
Ronald Edward Growcott had already served a six-month home detention sentence for sexually abusing two young girls up to 31 years ago, and near the end of that sentence he was questioned by police about this complaint.
Defence counsel Andrew McCormick said Growcott had lived in Australia, but his pension had been disestablished there, and that meant a permanent separation from his wife, who has dementia.
Crown prosecutor Pip Norman said Growcott pleaded guilty to an amended charge, and his victim has died since the complaint was made.
Judge David Saunders said Growcott came to New Zealand on a cruise in 2014, and was interviewed and arrested, and had not been able to return to Australia.
Growcott received the first home detention sentence for other unrelated offending, and this offending was sexual misconduct of a non-consensual nature on a young girl, he said.
He had already been on bail for this charge for 12 months, and was sentenced to three months’ home detention, with no post-release conditions.
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