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Lloyd McIntosh
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Sexually assaulted a six year old girl in August 1989
Raped a two year old girl anally, vaginally and orally in Wanganui in 1993
Assaulted and intellectually disabled Palmerston North woman in September 2003
Extensive history of recidivistic sexual deviancy
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none known
Born 1973
Christchurch, under ten year supervision
Sentenced to 10 years in December 1993
Released at sentence end date June 2003, promptly reoffended again
Sentenced to 18 months in late 2003 for his latest offence
Released July 2004 under extended supervision
Background
NZ Herald Story here and also here
Was released from Lake Alice, (where he was admitted after sexually assaulting a 9 month old baby), offended again by sexually assaulting a 2 year old boy. McIntosh had been previously described as the most dangerous patient in Lake Alice. (Wanganui Chronicle, 2 Dec, 1995).
Incredibly enough he was to be released into a halfway house out in a rural community under supervision. That didn't work out largely due to public pressure. The community into which he was to be released understandably did not take kindly to the idea. It then later emerged that he was being sent out to look for work. Publicity appears to have also paid to this mad idea. Currently he is being housed in a dwelling on prison grounds. Would it not have been simpler to just leave him inside indefinitely?
We have now been advised the likelihood McIntosh's risk of reoffending would ever be substantially diminished is nil. Even if he went extensive psychological therapy McIntosh would still pose a very high risk to the community.
Be constantly vigilant many paedophiles and sex offenders will reoffend when released into the community despite undergoing treatment.
From the Christchurch Press 23rd February 2006
Notorious sex offender Lloyd McIntosh is free to leave his Christchurch home monitored only by an electronic bracelet, under new Parole Board rules. Up until this week McIntosh was under 24-hour guard and accompanied by two supervisors any time he left his Rolleston Prison ground home, as part of an extended supervision order put in place last year. McIntosh's conditions had to be reviewed after a year, as the supervision order restricts the amount of time a person can be under round-the-clock guard to 12 months.
Under McIntosh's new conditions he will be electronically monitored and allowed to leave the Rolleston property between the hours of 9am and 3pm on weekdays. For the rest of his 10-year supervision order, the Parole Board said McIntosh must live at his home on the grounds of the Rolleston Prison unless given permission to leave by his probation officer. The serial paedophile is not allowed to associate with anyone under the age of 16 or get a job unless sanctioned by a probation officer. McIntosh is banned from using the internet and must attend rehabilitation programmes and regular meetings with a psychologist during the remainder of his time under supervision, or the next nine years.
The Parole Board decision said McIntosh had "an appalling history of deviant sexual offending which has involved vulnerable and fragile victims". "Experts have unanimously agreed that he is at very high risk of further sexual and/or violent offending." Despite this warning, the Parole Board decision said McIntosh's new regime was "carefully and intelligently designed" to protect the community from the paedophile. The conditions were also the strictest the board could impose under current law. The Probation Service would apply for a review in a year's time, the decision said. Sensible Sentencing spokesman Garth McVicar said under McIntosh's new conditions it was only a matter of time before he reoffended. "He has already proved how cunning and devious he is."
From the Dominion Post 14th April 2005
SERIAL paedophile Lloyd McIntosh was this week able to apply for a job at a Christchurch pub - directly opposite a primary school with 173 children. McIntosh - who has previously been warned about lurking around schools -- walked in off the street with his two supervisors to the Coop's Place bar in the suburb of New Brighton on Monday. Directly opposite the bar is Central New Brighton School, with 173 pupils. The Corrections Department has confirmed McIntosh - who has convictions for raping a 23-month-old baby and a six-year-old boy, - had been jobhunting for "several months".
He is considered New Zealand's most dangerous sex offender and is the first criminal ever subjected to a 10-year extended supervision order. He is forbidden from having contact with children aged under 16 and must be accompanied by two supervisors in public places. Coop's Place owner Barbara Young confirmed McIntosh visited the bar seeking a job - though none were being advertised - and was interviewed by her partner. His CV included his extensive criminal history and time as a Lake Alice mental patient. "He gave us this big form to read. It was very unusual, he's probably going around different places, I'd say. "There's no way we would employ him, definitely not. We've got a school right across the road."
Central New Brighton principal Brian Thompson was distressed to learn that McIntosh had sought a job across the road. "The safety of our children is paramount. From my perspective, apart from incarceration, there doesn't appear to be a totally infallible method of ensuring categorically that no child in the future would be harmed." Mr Thompson said parents would be concerned that McIntosh was looking for work in the suburb. "I know my staff will be concerned too. We would want a photo of this guy if he's in the area." While previously living in Marton, McIntosh was warned by a Lake Alice charge nurse to stop hanging around a primary school.
Corrections probation and offender services general manager Katrina Casey said McIntosh's supervision order allowed him to seek work, but his probation officer had to approve any job he took. "We don't approve where he's applying for a job, but he has his minders with him of course. We're keeping an eye on him. "As far as we know he has not applied anywhere where there would be children... " Ms Casey said it would have been "unlikely" that McIntosh would have been allowed to take the pub job if it had been offered, given the vicinity to children.
From the Dominion Post 18th March 2005
SEX OFFENDER Lloyd McIntosh will have his movements tracked by electronic bracelet for a decade after his 24-hour supervision is lifted. But the safeguard is being called ineffective by National MP Tony Ryall, who says it will not stop McIntosh entering places where children are present. The Parole Board made
public yesterday the conditions under which McIntosh will serve an extended supervision order, which comes into force on April 21. For the first year he will be under 24-hour supervision at home and accompanied by two people when leaving the property for locations that are considered "high-risk".
McIntosh has been been ordered to stay at a secret address while he is kept under guard for the maximum 12 months allowable. The Corrections Department refused to reveal the address yesterday but it is believed that for now he will remain in a house in Christchurch Prison's grounds. But Mr Ryall said the public would be at McIntosh's mercy once the supervision was lifted. Once the round-the-clock supervision is lifted, the only way Corrections authorities will be able to track his movements will be from electronic monitoring of an ankle bracelet. But Mr Ryall said he had examined the Canadian system New Zealand officials would use to monitor McIntosh, and it was deeply flawed. Coverage was patchy, similar to cellphones, and it would not warn authorities when McIntosh was approaching video arcades and other areas where children gathered.
From the Christchurch Press 12th January 2005
New Zealand's most dangerous sex offender, Lloyd McIntosh, has had his around-the-clock supervision halved by prison officials who want to cut costs. Despite the serial paedophile's shocking history of repeat sex offences, McIntosh's supervision has been cut from two full-time escorts to one. The Corrections Department is citing the "financial implications" of the serial rapist's expensive care for the decision, which was ordered two days before Christmas. McIntosh, 31, has been assessed as an "indiscriminate, high-risk sex offender" who is unlikely to stop committing sex crimes despite intensive psychological treatment.
He has already shown he can offend while being guarded full-time. In September 2003 he attacked a woman in his bedroom while his security guard-minder waited outside the room. McIntosh made legal history last month when the Corrections Department successfully sought a maximum 10-year supervision period for him. He continues to live in a house on Christchurch Prison's grounds. The around-the-clock supervision has been conducted by two staff from a private agency contracted by Corrections. The agency's name is suppressed. Both supervisors accompany him on any excursions he wishes to make. McIntosh's security arrangements have been costing up to $1000 a day.
But Corrections documents reveal that on December 10 - just two days after prison officials convinced two High Court judges that McIntosh was dangerous and needed 10 years supervision - prison officials sought to cut back his monitoring. A letter from Community Probation Service southern regional manager Warwick Duell to the supervising agency said: "It is the department's view that the level of supervision of Lloyd can be reduced to one-on-one for the full 24-hour period. "We believe that Lloyd should be settling into his programme and that two-to-one is no longer required ... It is essential we manage the costs of this contract within the expectations agreed by both parties."
The request, which took effect from January 1, was confirmed in a second letter on December 23 which said the 10-year supervision order was an "important milestone". "Having said that there is a need to manage this contract within financial expectations," the second letter said. National MP Tony Ryall, who obtained the letters, said he understood that staff supervising McIntosh - and within Corrections - were extremely concerned that he would reoffend. "He is the worst of the worst and the staff are very worried that the community is being put at risk for the sake of a few thousand dollars." McIntosh was a manipulative predator who had already proved he was not safe with one supervisor, Ryall said.
"People are blowing the whistle now so that the Government knows they are on notice - if he reoffends they know their cost-cutting was to blame." Duell confirmed plans to reduce McIntosh's monitoring, saying the supervision contract required that the supervision "progress as quickly as possible" to a single-person regime. The two-person supervision was used to help McIntosh establish routines and "mitigate any risks around intensive public interest". "The service has been in place for several months, Mr McIntosh's court hearings have been completed, and the high-risk Christmas period has now passed," he said. Duell said Corrections would continue to work closely with the supervising agency to monitor McIntosh's behaviour. "If concerns about (him) increase, the department will take immediate and appropriate action."
From the Christchurch Press 24th July 2004
Lloyd McIntosh -- once described as an indiscriminate, high-risk sex offender - has been under assessment since the age of four, writes YVONNE MARTIN. Listening to radio talkback on his release from 10 years in jail for raping a baby, convicted sexual predator Lloyd McIntosh was horrified to learn that the world
saw him as a "monster". "Desperately troubled" for most of his life, according to his lawyer, McIntosh has been shunted from one institution to another. Since the age of four, he has been examined, interviewed, assessed and diagnosed.
To McIntosh, having people endlessly scrutinising him, talking about him and writing reports on him was completely normal. "But that didn't stop him being genuinely horrified when he learnt that the rest of the world thinks he's a monster," his defence lawyer, Fergus Steedman told the Palmerston North District Court last December. McIntosh had been free for just four months when he assaulted a 25-year-old intellectually disabled woman, while a state-paid security guard waited outside his bedroom door. Neither jail nor intense monitoring was the answer, Steedman said. McIntosh, 31, received 18 months jail for the assault and was automatically "released" on conditions on Wednesday after serving half of that.
It is now emerging that McIntosh is not intellectually disabled, as he was previously painted, and could hold down a job and catch a bus, if he had to. McIntosh's "release" has been the most unusual in living memory, as his jailers have negotiated that he stay on at Christchurch Prison as a guest of the Corrections Department. Corrections and a new subsidiary of the Richmond Fellowship were forced into finding an alternative bed for McIntosh this week, when their plan to house him in rural Halkett was scuppered by outraged residents. McIntosh has agreed to stay in his own "self-care" unit, with his private staff, while a small house is relocated onto prison land for his use. Corrections expects it will take about three months to find a house, gain consents and shift it onto prison property, outside the perimeter fence.
Corrections is also attempting, for the first time, to get an extended supervision order under new law, which could allow McIntosh to be monitored for up to 10 years. The application process may take two or three months. In the interim, McIntosh is chauffeured wherever he needs to go by two trackers from Threshold Ltd, Richmond's subsidiary. McIntosh returns at night to his prison unit, which officers have dubbed the "Templeton Hilton". There he is watched round-the-clock by his supervisors, costing Corrections up to $17,000 a month. He is not confined to the lockdown regime of his inmate neighbours, but he is subject to visitor security checks. It is a precarious arrangement, relying on McIntosh's consent. If he tires of jail, he is legally entitled to leave and no prison officers, nor supervisors can stop him. It is now believed that Lloyd Alexander McIntosh has more smarts than he was previously given credit for.
When McIntosh appeared in court in 1989, charged with raping a six-year-old, he was found to have an IQ of 50 to 60 -- well below the normal range. He was diagnosed with "mild to moderate retardation" and said to have "large areas of non-functional brain". He was deemed unfit to plead on that charge. Now The Press understands that McIntosh is not in fact classed as intellectually disabled. Although he is not bright, he is within the "dull normal" range of intelligence, which means he is capable of holding down a job, reading the newspaper and counting his pay. He can also follow a bus timetable, not that he has need for one at present. Some child sex offenders have such severe learning disabilities they cannot understand the concept of consent, or distinguish between a child and an adult. McIntosh is not among them.
In fact, one professional said that McIntosh is a rare aberration. He does not have much of a conviction history because he was sent to Lake Alice psychiatric hospital rather than to trial after raping the child. "But if we score him on the basis of what we know he's done, then he goes through the roof," he said. "But we can't present that to a judge." Whether he is aware of it or not, McIntosh has already been a political football for more than a decade. He was committed to Lake Alice as a special patient in 1989. McIntosh was described as a menace, self-centred, manipulative, a liar and likely to re-offend. However he was discharged in 1993, along with a second child attacker, Barry Ryder, and 35 others, no longer classified mentally ill under a new mental illness definition.
Neil Pugmire, then a charge nurse at Lake Alice, had infamously risked his career to warn the public about Ryder, by writing an explosive letter to Phil Goff, then opposition justice spokesman. Pugmire later said the only reason he did not identify McIntosh in the letter was that he could not remember his name when he wrote it. Margaret McIntosh also opposed her son's release at the time, believing he could not change his behaviour. A Lake Alice psychiatric nurse warned that McIntosh had sexually assaulted another patient and repeatedly told staff of sadistic sexual fantasies before his release. While in Marton township, near Lake Alice, a charge nurse warned McIntosh to stop hanging around a primary school.
Three months after he was discharged, McIntosh raped a 23-month- old Palmerston North baby girl, anally, vaginally and orally, and was sentenced to 10 years jail. Then 20, he narrowly missed preventive detention due to a technicality at the time involving his age. McIntosh left the baby fighting for her life against a chlamydia infection in her throat and urinary tract, which caused convulsions and her heart to stop. A family friend who was unaware of his history had invited him to the house. Two adults were present but outside the house, leaving McIntosh with the baby for at least an hour. The mother returned to find her baby deeply distressed and her genital area was "red raw". His lawyer said McIntosh knew the attack was "awful and unforgiveable".
June last year saw a Halkett-style outcry when it was revealed McIntosh was to be released to live with his mother in Palmerston North. He was eventually placed under 24-hour supervision elsewhere. But four months on, he assaulted an intellectually disabled woman, while a Chubb security worker waited outside his bedroom door. The Chubb man said he did not enter the room because he felt he could not invade McIntosh's privacy. Instead the supervisor made distracting noises outside the door and through the window. McIntosh eventually "climbed off" the woman to answer the phone. McIntosh told his then lawyer, Steedman, he was falling in love with the woman: "It really is the real thing for me," he said. "I can feel my heart through my chest." Yet McIntosh told the woman's flatmate that he had nearly raped her.
Sentencing McIntosh to 18 months jail, Judge Peter Butler said the victim was "best described as vulnerable". He quoted a probation report that referred to McIntosh as "an indiscriminate, high-risk sex offender". So now McIntosh is released again, amidst concerns that he will re-offend. Will McIntosh succumb to his inner urges once more? Corrections director of psychological services David Riley said that improved techniques mean that psychologists can be "reasonably accurate" in predicting likely re-offenders. Offenders are risk-assessed using an international scale developed by a Canadian psychologist and researcher Karl Hanson. Their criminal history is scored on variables such as age, violence, the sex of the victim, whether the offender knew the victim, and whether there were "non-contact" sexual offences such as flashing, pornography and obscene language.
"You stack up the factors," said Riley, "and the higher you score, the more likely you are to re-offend." Young offenders score more highly, as do those whose victims are male, and unrelated to them, Riley said. At 16, McIntosh told psychiatrists he wanted to get rid of the sexual feelings that had confused him. He wanted to have lots of money, a beautiful home with TV sets, a car and a phone. He wanted his parents and grandparents to live with him and to "settle down". Such ordinary aspirations have been hopelessly out of his reach so far. Richmond chief executive Gerry Walmisley said that people like McIntosh were also forgotten victims. "He is seen as the perpetrator. He is the bearer of all of society's worst stigmas," said Walmisley. "But he was once somebody's child. When he was born, there was no pre-disposition for him to be a paedophile. It is not genetic and it is not hereditary. It is learned behaviour. It is not because they are intrinsically evil."
For the next nine months at least, it will be Threshold's job to closely monitor McIntosh. At first, he will be escorted by two trackers "as much to protect Lloyd from the public, as the public from Lloyd, because there have been threats", said Walmisley. McIntosh's privacy will be respected, but not at the public's expense. For instance, if McIntosh has a woman in his bedroom, then the door will be open, said Walmisley. But Canterbury University sociologist Professor Greg Newbold said no supervisory regime could stop a determined offender. "If he is determined enough he will get away from them and out-smart them," he said.
From the Christchurch Press 20th July 2004
Tears of relief and talk of a party greeted the news that a child rapist would not be housed in the small Halkett community. Yesterday, the Corrections Department announced it had reached a "unique" and "creative" solution for the release of convicted paedophile Lloyd McIntosh. McIntosh, who has raped a six- year-old and a toddler and assaulted an intellectually disabled woman, was due to be released from prison this week. But he has agreed to remain in a Christchurch Prison "self-care" unit under prison security for about two months while Corrections finds a small house for him. This will be put on prison land outside the Christchurch Prison perimeter fence where he will live under 24- hour supervision until mid-March.
By then it is likely Corrections will have applied to the courts for an extended supervision order which, if approved, could see McIntosh monitored for up to 10 years. "This is a unique solution and is not one that we will be able to provide for all child sex offenders," said Probation and Offender Services general manager Katrina Casey. "It has only been made possible by the consent of the offender who is legally entitled to be released to the community." Corrections had planned to release McIntosh this week to a house in Halkett, near West Melton, under tight security including 24- hour minders. But residents pointed out the unsuitability of a house which has a school bus stop outside, a Montessori preschool nearby, and is remote from emergency services.
The Press broke the news to the community yesterday. "You beauty," Action Group spokesman Tim Stevens said. "There will be a few people wanting to celebrate tonight. Someone suggested a dinner but I think a party is more in order." Several parents, who had spent countless nights sleepless with anxiety, broke down in tears. The turnaround was a victory for rational argument, not for the nimby syndrome, said Stevens. "It's about the suitability of our rural area for the rehabilitation of a sex offender. How is sitting in the country with an infra-red beam around his house suitable for rehabilitating an individual into the community?" The campaign had totally bonded the community, he said.
Stevens, a telecommunications consultant and his wife, Dawn, had moved down from Auckland three months ago to give their five-year- old daughter, Charlotte, and 16-month-old son, Jack, a better life. They did not know their neighbours before the campaign but now planned to start a residents' association. "There is still a nine-month lease for it and they've got all the security systems in there," said Stevens. "Are they still planning on putting someone else in there?" Last night's planned public meeting to discuss McIntosh went ahead as the community sought answers to "a few hard questions" that remained about the future of the property earmarked for McIntosh's release. Community Probation Service area manager Bernie Marra told the meeting that once McIntosh was housed in a unit on prison property, Corrections would "have no further interest in that house".
"We would never use it again. At this stage we're just holding it as a fallback should Lloyd McIntosh withdraw his consent." But Marra's inability to provide assurances McIntosh would never occupy the house did not wash with the crowd. "So he has more rights than all these law-abiding people here?" called out one. "If he decides to withdraw his consent tonight, he could be here tomorrow," said another. Selwyn Mayor Michael McEvedy told the meeting the Selwyn District Council believed Corrections required a resource consent to house high-risk offenders like McIntosh. "We have not given one, we have not been asked for one. Corrections will have to look somewhere else. There will have to be a better way of handling these people than dumping them in rural communities."
Now the Templeton Residents Association, which has Christchurch Prison as a neighbour, is concerned. Long-serving member Peter Peterson said housing McIntosh on the prison land but outside prison security could endanger intellectually disabled people who lived opposite at the Waitaha Learning Centre and at the nearby Brackenridge Estate. "He shouldn't come out of prison. After interfering with a two- year- old, you've no rights as far as I'm concerned," he said. Peterson said the association would discuss McIntosh at its regular monthly meeting next Monday.
Court to decide on McIntosh
Child rapist Lloyd McIntosh will be subject to an extended supervision order only if the courts decide he is at serious risk of reoffending. McIntosh is due to be released from prison this week after serving part of an 18-month sentence for the assault of an intellectually handicapped woman. This assault happened just months after he was released from a 10- year sentence for the rape of a 23-month-old girl in Wanganui. He had previously been charged with raping a six-year-old. Under the Parole (Extended Supervision) and Sentencing Amendment Act 2004 which came into effect earlier this month, medium and high- risk child sex offenders can be monitored in the community for up to 10 years.
The Corrections Department confirmed yesterday it had set the "wheels in motion" towards a possible extended supervision order for McIntosh. The first step was to do a psychological assessment of McIntosh's risk of reoffending. This would be submitted to the courts, which would take it into account along with any submissions from victims and the offender before deciding whether to issue an extended supervision order. If McIntosh becomes subject to such an order he would have to report to a probation officer regularly and might be obliged to attend treatment programmes and counselling as well as being subject to home and employment visits.
Extended supervision orders can include other conditions such as banning any contact with children and restricting places an offender can go. The highest risk offenders can be placed under home detention- like conditions for the first 12 months of the order. Electronic monitoring may be imposed for the entire extended supervision order. Extremely high-risk offenders can be monitored round-the-clock for the first 12 months of the order. Corrections said research had shown that child sex offenders' risk of reoffending remained constant over a long period of time in contrast to other offenders.
