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Offender Databases Andrew Aupouri

Andrew Mark Aupouri

Alias

Anita Mere Aupouri

Offences

Indecent assault of two young girls, aged 9, in Opawa, Christchurch in early 2006
Also had 150 other convictions including numerous assaults, indecent assault and serious property crimes

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

Andrew Marr

Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1967

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to just two years and three months in June 2006
Eligible for parole from January 2007

Background
Christchurch Press story June 2006
A transsexual who admitted indecently assaulting two nine-year-old girls and dragging one into bushes has been sent to jail for two years and three months. The mother of one of the girls yesterday told Christchurch District Court she had noticed her child was not as free and easy as before, and found it more difficult interacting with her playmates. The other girl's mother describes her as "losing a lot of the freedom she enjoyed before the incident," said Judge Colin Doherty, at the sentencing of Anita Mere Aupouri, also known as Andrew Mark Aupouri. "In the circumstances, dragging a child into the bushes, producing a knife which wasn't used, and the language which was used, is of serious concern," Crown prosecutor Barnaby Hawes said yesterday.

The crown said Aupouri, 39, had been watching a group of children from behind bushes as they fished along the Heathcote River. He approached them, offered food, and told them of a better fishing spot. When one of the girls tripped, Aupouri tied her shoelace and felt her legs. The girl backed away but Aupouri approached the group later in the street, pushed another one off her bike, grabbed her around the neck with both hands and dragged her into some bushes. He pulled out a knife, exposed his penis, and began to masturbate while still holding the girl. "Luckily, she was able to escape from you," said Judge Doherty.

Defence counsel Vicki Walsh said Aupouri wanted to be regarded as a transsexual. Judge Doherty accepted that Aupouri had an "abusive and dysfunctional upbringing". He had the knife for protection in his chosen profession as a street worker. The judge noted Aupouri's early guilty plea, letters expressing his remorse, and accepted that the offences had not involved touching the girls' genitals. But he also noted his criminal record amounted to more than 20 pages of computer print-out and probably included up to 150 convictions, including many assaults, serious property crime, soliciting in the 1980s, and one indecent assault 22 years ago. "This is serious offending," he told Aupouri her before he imposed the jail term. "These girls were nine years old and particularly vulnerable."

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