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Adrian Budd
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Rape (x2), indecent assault (x8) and doing indecent acts on a girl aged under 12 (x6), all relating to two sisters between 1959 and 1963
Also prior convictions for indecent assault in 1978 and 1987, plus one in 2006 for sexual grooming of a 13 year old girl
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none known
Born 1944
Under "supervision" in Palmerston North
Sentenced to just 5 years in December 2007
Released December 2011 under extended supervision for 10 years
Background
Supreme Court decision here (PDF)
From the Daily News 14th December 2007
One of Adrian Stanley Budd's victims blames the stress of having to give evidence as the reason behind her recent stroke. The woman was not in the High Court at New Plymouth yesterday to see the 63-year-old Patea man sentenced to five years' jail on two rape charges, eight charges of indecent assault and six counts of performing an indecent act on a girl aged under 12.
They were all charges a jury had found him guilty of in October, while Budd had admitted two charges of indecent assault before the trial. He was acquitted on a solitary rape charge. All of the charges relate to historical acts on two sisters whom Budd sexually abused between 1959 and 1963 in a small North Island town.
Justice John Hansen did not agree with Budd's protests that the offences were minor indiscretions of a young man on young girls. "A number of the indecencies would now be considered serious sexual violations. Some of these would be sexual violation by rape," he said. "The women suffered greatly over the years due to this offending."
Budd's lack of remorse was evident in the fact that he alleged the victims went to court only so they could claim ACC payments. Justice Hansen told the court Budd had lost his parents and grandparents at a young age and had been abused himself as a child.
The former farmhand had convictions in 1978 for performing an indecent act, in 1987 for performing an indecent act on a child under 12, and one of sexually grooming a child last year. A probation report classed him as a high risk of re-offending. Handing down sentence, Justice Hansen said the Court of Appeal had made it clear the punishment for historical offences should not be greater than that which would have been appropriate at the time of the offending.
Earlier, Crown prosecutor Cherie Clarke asked for a jail term of six years, citing the victims' vulnerability as a major mitigating factor. Defence counsel Patrick Mooney said his client acknowledged he needed help.
From the Daily News 31st October 2007
ADRIAN STANLEY BUDD'S list of convictions for sexual abuse grew dramatically yesterday after a New Plymouth High Court jury found him guilty on a long list of charges.
The 63-year-old Patea man has been convicted on two rape charges, eight charges of indecent assault and six counts of doing indecent acts on a girl aged under 12. He had earlier admitted two charges of indecent assault and was acquitted on a solitary rape charge.
All of the charges relate to historic allegations from two sisters who said Budd sexually abused them between 1959 and 1963 in a small North Island town. They wept openly as the jury returned its verdicts and thanked the court for listening to them. Budd is no stranger to court appearances on child sex charges. Last year he became the first person to be convicted for sexual grooming under New Zealand law when he befriended a 13-year-old girl.
He had also been convicted of indecent assaults in 1978 and 1987. Earlier yesterday, the court was played a 2003 video interview between Budd and Detective Sergeant Gynne Pennell. During the interview, Budd outlined some personal problems, saying he had been an alcoholic from a young age, while his wife of 22 years had left him for a prison inmate she befriended while doing voluntary work.
His childhood was punctuated by beatings from his father, while his mother died in a car accident when he was nine or 10. Budd admitted to the officer there was a "possibility" he touched one of the victims, but he denied the alleged rapes. "I did attempt it (sex), yes, but I can't recall going all the way," he said. He also claimed one of the victims had initiated the sexual activity, butinsisted they were "just playing around."
When questioned on accusations he had threatened the girls before abusing them, Budd said he would "never do anything like that." Justice John Hansen remanded Budd in custody for sentencing on December 13.
From the Daily News 30th October 2007
The victims of a teenage sexual assailant finally took to the witness stand yesterday, almost 50 years after the alleged attacks first happened. Two sisters, who can not be named because of court suppression laws, were giving evidence in the High Court at New Plymouth against Patea man Adrian Stanley Budd.
The 63-year-old has denied three rape charges, eight charges of indecent assault and six counts of doing indecent acts on a girl aged under 12. All of the charges are alleged to have happened between 1959 and 1963 in a small North Island town. It is one of the most historic sexual cases ever brought to court by the Crown in Taranaki.
Crown prosecutor Cherie Clarke opened the case by saying Budd had already admitted two charges of indecent assault against one of the victims, but had denied the offending ever went as far as what was alleged. The Crown says Budd, a young farm worker in 1959, abused one of the sisters when she was seven to 11 years old, while the second victim was just a three-year-old when she was first sexually assaulted.
His crimes escalated from him initially touching their genitalia, to rape. The girls were warned that he would kill them if they told anyone, while he also told one of the victims that he would "stick her in a box and put her in the fire" if she revealed what was happening. On other occasions, he warned one of the girls that she would "go to the devil" if she told anyone.
Defence counsel Patrick Mooney said that his client in no way accepted the extent of the Crown allegations. He warned the jury that it would be hard for Budd to prove his innocence because after more than 45 years, he was left with no witnesses to call in his defence. Conversely, it would be equally as hard for the Crown to prove the offences took place. The oldest victim told the court that she had first been raped in a school's long-drop toilet.
She described her attacker as an opportunist, who would offend at any time of the day or night and she had believed him when he said he would kill her if she told anyone. Under cross-examination from Mr Mooney, she denied what went on was just sexual education between two young children. Mr Mooney also questioned her on inconsistencies between her evidence and statements she had made to police.
"I know what he done to me, whether I've got the dates right or wrong. I was a little girl," she said. "Please believe me." The second victim said Budd would pick her up out of her bed and take her away to abuse her. The trial, before Justice Rodney Hansen, continues today.
