A prominent Auckland businessman has been sentenced to 15 years behind bars for operating a dungeon where he forced underage drug-addicted girls to perform sexual acts on him in exchange for methamphetamine.
The court heard the extent of the 59-year-old’s offending left his victims degraded, humiliated and scarred for life.
The man has been granted ongoing name suppression until February next year despite some of his victims and their families wanting the order lifted.
The court heard how the man would in some cases kidnap the girls and force them to perform oral sex on him in exchange for methamphetamine.
Prosecutor Jo Murdoch said the man used his position of authority, his money and sense of entitlement to lead a “hedonistic lifestyle where he preyed on young people who were leading vulnerable lives”.
The court heard how one of the young victims was pulled from the streets, taken to the man’s apartment and placed in his “dungeon”, stripped naked, shackled and then forced to perform oral sex. She pleaded with the man to “rape her to get it over and done with”. But the man degraded her further by telling her “she looked beautiful when she cried”.
Police still don’t know how many girls he abused but two of his known victims were just 14 and 15.
“Both were young, both were addicted to, depended on, methamphetamine,” Auckland District Court Judge Russell Collins said.
“You played on addiction to methamphetamine, or the desire on behalf of others for drugs, for your own sexual gratification,” Judge Collins said, adding that the man’s actions have changed their lives forever.
He imposed a minimum eight year non-parole period and said the man showed no remorse for his actions.
“I’m far from convinced about your prospects of rehabilitation. I do not see them as high at all,” Judge Collins said.
In total the man was sentenced to 15 counts including sexual violation, kidnapping, using drugs to procure sex and various other drugs and firearm charges.
The court heard the man used another young woman to help procure the girls for his sexual gratification.
The businessman is due in court on further charges next year.
Published: Friday December 19, 2014 Source: ONE News
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Note: Section 2 of the SPCS Constitution states that one of the Society’s objectives is:
2. (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. {Emphasis added]
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