Paedophile may remain a risk
The Crown is having second thoughts about its decision not to seek an open-ended preventive detention sentence for a 39-year old man [name removed] who disclosed more sex offences involving children, while he was undergoing treatment in prison. He disclosed 16 sex charges against eight young girls while doing the Kia Marama sex offenders’ programme in Christchurch Men’s Prison.
After his guilty pleas, the Crown decided not to seek preventive detention but it has been rethinking that decision after access was barred to reports on his treatment at the programme. Without those reports, the Crown faced a difficult assessment of any future risk to the community that the offender might pose.
In court today, the offender agreed to allow access by the Crown and his defence counsel to reports prepared on his treatment after the crown prosecutor sought a direction on the matter from Christchurch District Court Judge David Saunders.
The offender has a history of offending stretching back 20 years and the latest offences for which he now faces sentencing were committed from the 1990s to 2005 in Timaru.
He is seen as having a deeply entrenched sexual attraction to children, and is assessed as a high-risk pornography offender.
He is serving a two-year four-month term imposed in May last year for possession of objectionable material including images of bestiality and child pornography.
For more see: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/5862862/Paedophile-may-remain-a-risk
Story by David Clarkson, Dominion Post, 27 October 2011.
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