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Your playlist will load after this ad The Government is introducing urgent law change today to fix the blunder made in the 2016 law. Source: 1 NEWS The longer these offenders are off the register, the less ability police have to monitor them, Police Minister Poto Williams said today.
The changes to the current law will ensure that all individuals who have committed a qualifying child sex offence, irrespective of when that offence occurred will be put on the Child Sex Offender Register. We are taking urgent action for the safety of our tamariki, Williams said.
It comes after a Supreme Court decision last month that found the current law was not clear enough, meaning the rules did not apply to a person who committed a qualifying offence before the law came into force in 2016, and were convicted and sentenced after.
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Killer Beez patched member Dean Whakatau jailed for 7 years for teen-sex offending
18 Feb, 2021 05:00 PM
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Dean Whakatau has 110 previous convictions. Photo / File
Just two months after being released from prison for kidnapping and sexual offences against a teenage girl, a Rotorua patched gang member started grooming another young girl. Dean Wayne Whakatau, 41, is on the Child Sex Offender Register and has told authorities his disregard for the law is a part of gang life .
During the latest sexual encounter against a girl, he gave her cannabis and afterwards an unknown drug he called crack .
The former Black Power gang member and now Killer Beez member is back behind bars after he was jailed for seven years on 13 charges, including four charges of having unlawful sexual connection with a girl aged under 16.
Man wins appeal to have name struck off Child Sex Offender Register
9 Feb, 2021 05:06 AM
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The man committed the offence prior to the Registration Act coming into force but was convicted and sentenced after that date. Photo / File
The man committed the offence prior to the Registration Act coming into force but was convicted and sentenced after that date. Photo / File
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A convicted man has won his appeal in the Supreme Court to have his name struck off the Child Sex Offender Register.
The man was sentenced to nine months home detention in early 2018 after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography in early 2016.