April 08, 2009

Man admits years of sex offending

The crown may seek preventive detention for Christopher Douglas Holster for years of sexual offending.

He pleaded guilty before trial to charges of meeting a girl after ?grooming? her for sex, and two charges of having sexual connection with a young person.

Crown prosecutor Mark Zarifeh asked for the psychiatric reports that will enable 39-year-old Holster to be considered of the indefinite jail term.

The district court sentencing has been set for May 20 but Holster will have to be sent to the High Court if the judge decides a preventive detention term should be imposed.

Mr Zarifeh told the court Holster had earlier been texting and touching a girl and held her down and had sexual intercourse when she was aged 12.

This happened over a two-year period. She sometimes had marks on her body from being held down, and Holster threatened that he ?knew people who could kill her or her family?.

Later, she stopped struggling and said she believed she had been brain-washed by him.

Mr Zarifeh said the crown would argue that it was an aggravating factor for sentencing that Holster had photographs of the girl in various poses on his camera and computer.

The crown argued that name suppression should be lifted once Holster had pleaded guilty and defence counsel Michael Starling said no application was being made for continued suppression nor bail pending sentence.