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123rf A man must have no unsupervised contact with children for two years after being convicted on 15 objectionable material charges. A man will spend the next two years under intensive supervision, with no internet-capable devices and no unsupervised contact with children, after being caught with child exploitation images on his laptop. Matthew Woodhead, 41, was sentenced in the Nelson District Court to the maximum intensive supervision on Tuesday, with special conditions including no contact with any child under the age of 16 without the supervision of an “approved, informed” adult, no...

Judge Chris Tuohy summed up the facts of the incident, which happened on December 17, 2018, near Pepin Island in Nelson. Newland’s dog Baloo, an american pitbull/cross, had ended up biting a 13-year-old papillon called Jasmine, who had been at the beach with her owner’s family. While witnesses had differing accounts over how the incident occurred, Jasmine suffered bleeding after being bitten on her back leg by Baloo. Newlands said Baloo had responded to being harried by Jasmine, picking her up in his mouth and putting her down to one side. However, the other dog owner's daughter said ...