28th November 2015

Sentence For Sexual Violation Out of Touch

“Sexual violation, rape, unlawful sexual connection, call it what you will but it must be extinguished from society & judges need to use the full extent of the laws parliament has made available to them. “This type of behaviour is entirely in the hands of our Judiciary."

Sensible Sentencing Trust’s Manawatu Spokesperson Scott Guthrie has labelled the sentence handed down to a Deputy Principal who sexually violated a male student in her care, over a 2 year period, as weak & undermining to the publics intelligence not to mention the ongoing publics demands for change.

Stacey Reriti, who on Friday was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment [eligible for release at 1/3] on 6 charges of unlawful sexual connection & 1 charge of preforming an indecent act on a minor, under the Crimes amendment Act 2005 could have been sentenced to up to 20 years without parole on just 1 charge of unlawful sexual connection, but will be eligible for parole in less than 4 years.

When passing sentence Justice Woolford said “ he acknowledged Reriti was mentally unwell, and said her offending was less pathological and degrading than in some similar cases” which Scott labelled as “deplorable not to mention unrealistic”.

Scott is once again calling for all Judges to start exercising the powers available to them when sentencing & to stop taking into consideration the wants or needs of these high profile offenders & to start considering what the public of New Zealand might consider as an acceptable sentence.

“Our children must be kept safe. Society as a whole has had enough of pandering to the criminals. Our politicians make the laws so how about they start seeing that they are enforced to their full extent.”

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