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Pierre John Parsons

Alias

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Offences

Abduction and sexual violation of a 12 year old Christchurch girl in June 1995

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1977

Current Location

Under "extended supervision"

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 11 years with a 3 year concurrent term in September 1995
Released on parole January 2003
Returned to prison to continue serving his sentence February 2005
Released under a 10 year supervision order February 2006

Background
From the Evening Post 25th May 1996
The Court of Appeal has upheld the 11-year prison sentence imposed on a young Dunedin man who strangled a girl unconscious and then raped her. The court said acts of extreme violence led up to the rape and the attack only stopped when Pierre John Parsons, 18, feared discovery. Parsons was a first offender and pleaded guilty. He was sentenced in the High Court at Dunedin last September. His appeal against the sentence was dismissed yesterday .

Delivering the Court of Appeal's judgment, Justice Doogue said the 12-year-old victim was attacked when she went to the toilet during sports training. A rope was tied around her neck. Parsons' lawyer emphasised the abuse Parsons himself had suffered, and that a long prison sentence reduced the chance of his being rehabilitated. Justice Doogue said the court had no control over the treatment Parsons received. The judge said a clinical psychologist had said Parsons had no true awareness of the nature and consequence of his actions and no wish to come to terms with his underlying problems. He was reported to have no remorse for his victim.

While inside Parsons volunteered to Kia Marama and participated in that programme for a year, commencing during 2002. At the end of the programme his risk of reoffending was described as "high".

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