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Offender Databases Warwick Coe

Warwick Ian Coe

Alias

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Offences

Sexual violation (representative), indecency (x4) and making an objectionable publication (x6), all involving an Oamaru girl aged between nine and 10 and a boy aged 12 to 13, between 2006 and 2007

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1966

Current Location

Unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 6 years 6 months in March 2008

Background
From the Christchurch Press 19th March 2008
An Oamaru man who photographed and filmed the victims of his sexual offending was depraved and disgusting, a judge said yesterday.In the Timaru District Court, Judge Michael Crosbie sentenced Warwick Ian Coe, 42, to a total of six and-a-half years jail on one representative count of sexual violation, four counts of indecency and six counts of making an objectionable publication. Coe pleaded guilty to all charges.

The offences involved a girl aged between nine and 10 and a boy aged 12 to 13, between 2006 and 2007. The victims' mother, who cannot be identified, said the offending was sickening. She said she no longer allowed her children to talk to men, and her family had been slandered "as if we did something wrong". She said the family had been conned by a "dirty sick conman" who was supposed to be a friend.

Pip Hall, for Coe, said the crimes were abhorrent. Coe became addicted to internet pornography. That, coupled with depression and a break-up of a relationship, led him to act out what he had seen on the internet. Hall said Coe was remorseful and full of self-hatred. He said Coe could, and would, pay $5000 to each victim for emotional harm. The judge said an aggravating factor in the offending was that Coe photographed and filmed the children and what he did to them.

Police recovered more than 20,000 deleted images from Coe's equipment. The judge said Coe offered the children jobs and pocket money, and then set up covert cameras. Coe's offending was discovered when the parents visited the home unexpectedly and found the boy in the shower and Coe in shorts.

"This has had a profound effect of these children," the judge said. He said Coe's actions were depraved and disgusting. He said the victims should feel no shame or blame, as they were manipulated and violated by a mature man they trusted. He ordered Coe pay each victim $5000 within 28 days, the money to be held in trust until they were 18, or to be used to cover the cost of medical or other services not able to be covered by ACC or the parents.

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