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Offender Databases Aaron Edmonds

Aaron Elvis Edmonds

Alias

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Offences

Unlawful sexual connection with a 14 year old Wellington girl, and inducing her to perform an indecent act, both in 1998

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1978

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced for two years six months in March 1999
Reduced to just one year six months on appeal

Background
Evening Post. Wellington, Mar 27, 1999
A 14-year-old social welfare runaway had multiple sex partners while absent from the home where she was supposed to be living, a High Court judge has heard. In Wellington yesterday, Justice Ellis sentenced Aaron Elvis Edmonds to 2 and a half years jail for having sexual intercourse with a 14- year-old girl and inducing her to perform an indecent act. Edmonds was acquitted of rape. The judge said he rejected Edmonds' claim he did not know the girl's age. Edmonds was a predatory young man and a threat to the community, Justice Ellis said.

Defence lawyer Ken Daniels said there was reason to be angry at Edmonds and some of his friends who also had sex with the girl, but there was also perhaps cause for anger at the Children, Young Persons and Their Families Service for not taking better care of her. The things that happened to her while she was absent from the welfare home had affected her, but Edmonds was not to blame for all of it, Mr Daniels said. Edmonds was just one of several men who had sexual contact with the girl.

Another man had received a sentence of eight months periodic detention, Mr Daniels said. He said the real sentence was one month periodic detention because that was the time added to a sentence the man was already serving for another offence. Prosecutor Ken Stone said Edmonds' crime was more serious because he took the girl away from a house intending to have sexual intercourse with her. Mr Daniels said Edmonds had yet to see his young child, born during his remand in custody, begun last November. He was also unable to attend the funeral of the person who had raised him.

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