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Anthony Joseph Hutton

Alias

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Offences

Repeated rape of a seven year old girl in 1994
Sexual molestation of a nine year old boy in 1989
Also committed nine other rapes and indecent assaults involving four girls under 16 from 1983 to 1992
Also escaped from Waikeria Prison in July 1998

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

Murray White

Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1953

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to preventive detention in May 1996
Parole declined November 2008
Due for next hearing November 2009

Background
From the Dominion Post 11th November 2003
A man who raped five girls in an 11-year period has had his appeal against a sentence of preventive detention dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Anthony Joseph Hutton was convicted in the Rotorua High Court in February 1996 on two charges of raping a seven-year-old girl. The next month he was convicted in the Hamilton District Court of nine rape and indecent assault charges involving four girls aged between five and 15 years. The offences took place between 1983 and 1992.

Hutton's lawyer Peter Kaye argued the Rotorua convictions were a miscarriage of justice because the victim and her mother were seen talking to two jury members. He also said the trial judge had failed to give adequate weight to a lengthy finite sentence as an alternative to the indefinite sentence of preventive detention. Justice Goddard declined to uphold either argument.

In the Auckland High Court, Justice Blanchard said when jailing Hutton indefinitely that it was "somewhat incredible" that authorities could put one of the girls in Hutton's foster care despite the fact Hutton was a convicted paedophile. The judge said Hutton was a danger to the public as he did not acknowledge his offending.

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