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Offender Databases Maifea Siaki

Maifea Lui Siaki

Alias

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Offences

Raped a 14 year old Christchurch girl and wilfully attempted to obstruct the course of justice in July 2001
Previous male assaults female conviction

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1979

Current Location

At large in American Samoa

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 8 years in June 2002
Deported upon his release

Background
From Christchurch Press story 28th June 2002
Maifea Lui Siaki has been jailed for eight years for the rape of a 14-year-old girl in a Linwood Park, a crime the Crown described as "opportunistic and predatory". The 23-year-old, an apparel factory worker, is likely to be deported to American Samoa when he has served the sentence imposed in the Christchurch District Court by Judge Graeme Noble yesterday. The judge said the jury had rightly found Siaki guilty of the sexual violation, and said the offence had had a substantial effect on the victim.

She had difficulty giving evidence about the intimate details of the offence, and had declined to help prepare a victim impact report. However, the court had a report from the victim's mother about the continuing effects upon the girl, now aged 15, and had also received a plea from Siaki's mother to be as lenient as it could. Siaki had written a letter in Samoan, which was passed on to the judge. According to defence counsel Elizabeth Lorimer it contained a plea for forgiveness from his family for the shame he had brought upon them.

Miss Lorimer said Siaki did not accept the verdict. She suggested he may still believe the girl's capitulation out of fear was perhaps her acquiescence. "It is accepted that this offending, by its very nature, is violent offending," she said. "It is comforting from the defence point of view that the complainant, with the support of her family, will recover from this event to lead a full and active life in due course," Miss Lorimer said. Crown prosecutor Jane Farish described it as an opportunistic and predatory crime. She said that, having seen the girl in a shopping mall, Siaki had then followed her and had then raped her.

Judge Noble said he believed it was no coincidence that, having seen the girl at the mall, Siaki had separated from his two friends as darkness fell and had walked with her as she headed home. Although there had been no overt violence apart from the rape itself, he concluded that the girl had felt powerless to prevent intercourse occurring. "I also infer that you knew very well that you had done wrong. That is why you lied twice to the police to distance yourself altogether from the circumstances," the judge said. He noted that Siaki had a conviction for assaulting a woman in 1999, for which he had received a term of periodic detention.

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