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Offender Databases Stewart Rolton

Stewart Malcolm Rolton

Alias

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Offences

Incest/rape with his 14 year old daughter in Kaikoura, Waiau and Christchurch between early 1998 and August 1999
Also indecently assaulted two of his daughter's friends in his Christchurch home in late August 1999
Previous conviction for drink driving

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1952

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 3 months periodic detention in November 1998
Details of final sentence not yet updated

Background
Rolton and his wife separated in the early 1990s. Rolton's offending included raping his 14 year old daughter after pulling up at a paddock while taking her to Kaikoura on a motorcycle. On another occasion he raped her while she slept in his tent and tried to rape her again the following morning. On another occasion Rolton raped, sodomised his daughter and committed other gross indecencies on her and sexually molested two of her friends.

From Christchurch Press story 24th November 1999
A father's sustained rape of his terrified daughter only came to light when he turned his attentions to her two school-friends, the Christchurch District Court has been told. The 15-year-old claimed she had been too scared to tell anyone of the abuse over about 18 months. Then in August, two friends were sleeping over at the man's home. The daughter claimed that, after allegedly raping her, her father tried to rape another 15-year-old and tried to take the jeans off a third.

The friends told her that what her father was doing was illegal and took her away from the house. All three then laid complaints with the police. The father, 47, who cannot be named, denies charges of rape, incest, and sexual violation relating to his daughter, and charges of assaulting the second girl with intent to commit sexual violation, and indecently assaulting the third. The daughter's evidence, which was read to the depositions hearing in a statement, was that he had driven her to a paddock near Kaikoura, where he plied her with abottle of alcohol.

"He said if I was drunk, I wouldn't feel anything. He didn't tell me what he meant."She was left hurt, sobbing, and frightened but she did not tell anyone because she was "scared of dad", she said. She claimed she was raped again when her father took her to Waiau. During the incident,she screamed in pain and her father responded by trying to strangle her. Then in August, her two friends were sleeping over at her house when her father arrivedhome unexpectedly. Later, her father took her into the sunroom of the home. "I was really scared because I knew he'd make me have sex with him. I was crying and he told me to be quiet," she said.

Afterwards, her father turned his attentions to her school- friend. "I heard him tell her to take her clothes off and get into bed. The next thing I saw was her coming out, just wearing her knickers and she got into bed crying. Sheput some clothes on and ran out of my room." That girl told the court that the defendant began making sexual advances although he knew she was 15. "I kept saying to him `Please don't'. He said `No- one would come in so don't worry'," she said. The girl said she ran into the daughter's room and asked her for help.

The defendant came out dressed only in underwear, went up to his daughter, and literally dragged her sobbing back into his room, where she said she was raped again. Her screams of pain woke others in the house and she was able to sneak back to her bedroom, the daughter said. "(The third girl) was awake and said dad shouldn't be doing that to me and it was illegal. I didn't say anything. I was just hiding under my blankets crying." The next morning, the daughter went with her friend to her home, told the friend'sfather, and the police were called.

Vaginal swabs taken from the daughter detected the presence of semen although thecourt was told the results of DNA matching with her father had not been completed. When arrested, the defendant allegedly said friends had been warning him about his abuse of alcohol "because I've been losing it lately". He declined to make a statement about the daughter's allegations. David Bunce, defending, did not call evidence or make submissions. Judge John Bisphan found there was sufficient evidence to put the father on trial. He was remanded in custody to a pre-trial conference in the High Court in Christchurch next month.

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