Labour MP Kelvin Davis hasn’t done much training ahead of walking a half-marathon for 17 days, but says the pain will be worth it if it puts a stop to sexual violence. [Read more…]
Rapist ignored victim’s pleas to spare her and her unborn baby
A Wellington woman tried to explain to a brutal rapist that she could be pregnant with her first child and begged him not to hurt her.
It did not matter to Bailey Meredith, 17, who violated her over and over during an attack on the Hutt River riverbank on June 11 before beating her unconscious.
She had been out walking when he had grabbed her from behind, ordering her to her knees before saying he intended to rape her….
The judge jailed Meredith for eight years but did not impose a minimum non-parole period.
Melinda Tankard Reist – Impact of Sexualised Imagery. RadioNZ Interview
Originally aired on Sunday Morning, Sunday 13 September 2015
[An interview every porn promoter should listen to very carefully and thoughfully]
International advocate against the sexual exploitation of women and children, Melinda Tankard Reist discusses the pervasive influence of sexualised imagery in popular culture.
Full Interview here: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/201770434/melinda-tankard-reist-impact-of-sexualised-imagery
Further reading:
See: http://www.tearfund.org.nz/melinda-tour/
https://www.spcs.org.nz/girl4u-underage-sex-auckland-businessman-pimp-charged-for-sex-exploitation/
New Plymouth man Gary Timothy Fenwick sentenced for toilet filming
Gary Timothy Fenwick, 45, was sentenced in the New Plymouth District Court after pleading guilty to secretly filming people in toilets.
A self-confessed porn addict and voyeur who secretly filmed people in toilets using hidden cameras has been revealed after losing a bid for permanent name suppression.
In the New Plymouth District Court Gary Timothy Fenwick pleaded guilty to two charges of making an intimate visual recording in July.
He has had interim name suppression since he first appeared in court.
The charges related to the 45-year-old setting up hidden cameras in the unisex toilets at two entertainment venues in New Plymouth……….
Judge Chris Sygrove said concerns raised by Fenwick about the impact on his wife if his name suppression was lifted and his identity made public did not meet the high threshold required.
“In my view the extreme hardship is not met,” Sygrove said.
He described the offending as “sick and depraved” and that it had involved a high level of planning.
Fenwick had also previously opposed a media application to record him in court.
Sygrove said there was no evidence that Fenwick had traded the images.
He had since been getting psychological help to address his issues.
Sygrove sentenced Fenwick to four months community detention, six months supervision and ordered him to do 100 hours of community work.
– Taranaki Daily News
Earlier stories:
Note:
One of the Objectives from s. 2 of its Constitution, is to focus is:
(d) To focus attention on the harmful nature and consequences of sexual promiscuity, obscenity, pornography, violence, fraud, dishonesty in business, exploitation, abuse of alcohol and drugs, and other forms of moral corruption, for the purpose of moral and spiritual improvement.
Patrick John Renshaw – Ex-lawyer admits 42 tax offence charges
PATRICK JOHN RENSHAW, 68, a former lawyer whose frauds contributed to losses suffered by many Upper Hutt investors in the 1990s has pleaded guilty to tax charges. [The NZ Gazette records him as a bankrupt effective 7 April 2014 in a notice from the official assignee].
Renshaw, now a tax advisor, was in the Wellington District Court yesterday (18/8/15) where guilty pleas were entered to 42 charges of aiding and abetting offences, most of them for not paying PAYE tax deductions to the Department of Inland Revenue for employees of his own company.
Other charges related to trying to claim false GST refunds for four companies, and filing a false tax return for himself and one company. He will be sentenced next week.
Inland Revenue produced a chart showing the shortfall in tax paid was $144,968, with another $201,413 attempted.
Renshaw was one of two defrauding partners in the high-profile collapse of Upper Hutt law firm Renshaw Edwards in 1992. [Read more…]