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Offender Databases Brendan Cridge

Brendan James Cridge

Alias

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Offences

Rape and sexual violation of a disabled Tauranga woman in November 2008
Further rape of another Tauranga woman while on bail in March 2009

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1974

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 7 years in November 2009, a 4 year 6 month cumulative term was imposed in May 2011
Making a total sentence of 11 years 6 months

Background
NZ Herald story here
From the Bay of Plenty Times 7th November 2009
A Bay man who admitted raping a woman known to him who suffers a disability after propositioning her to have a "quickie" with him has been jailed for seven years.

Brendan Cridge, 35, who earlier admitted one charge of sexual violation by rape and two charges of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection was sentenced in Tauranga District Court yesterday.

The court was told that in November last year Cridge visited the woman's house, where he made the sexual proposition, which his victim declined. When Cridge persisted with his proposition the woman, in her 30s, became scared and locked herself in the bathroom for an extended period. However when she came out, she found Cridge waiting for her in the bedroom.

Crown prosecutor Sharee Christensen sought a sentence starting point of a minimum of 10 years, which accorded with what Judge Thomas Ingram had indicated to Cridge during an earlier sentence indication hearing.

Cridge's lawyer, Craig Tuck, said despite the contents of the pre-sentence report, his client was deeply remorseful, having penned a letter of apology and taken responsibility for his crime by his guilty pleas. Mr Tuck said Cridge also acknowledged that his offending has had a significant impact on his victim and his own partner.

Testimonials before the court showed this offending was out-of-character behaviour, he said. Judge Peter Rollo told Cridge that any rape was serious but in this case it was compounded by the fact that he knew about the particular vulnerability of his victim and abused her trust by taking advantage of her own home where the woman should have felt safe from "his sexual predation".

Reading from the victim impact statement, Judge Rollo said the effects on the victim had clearly been significant including having suicidal thoughts. While it was accepted Cridge's actions were not premeditated and the testimonials put before the court were in stark contrast to this behaviour, the persistent nature of his advances before the rape occurred were another aggravating factor, the judge said.

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