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Kevin Ronald Simmons

Alias

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Offences

Abducted and sexually violated a 3 year old Paparoa boy in April 2000
Also committed five burglaries from September 1999

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1955

Current Location

At large

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to preventive detention with (ten year minimum) in August 2000, concurrent with 8 years for the kidnapping, 4 years for the sexual offence, and two for each of the burglaries
This was overturned on appeal in September 2000, and changed to a nine years finite term
Released May 2006

Background
NZ Herald story here
Offender has a nappy fetish for which he has refused treatment

From Evening Post article 8th September 2000
A nappy fetishist has had his preventive detention jail sentence reduced to nine years for pleading guilty and co-operating with police after he sexually violated a three-year-old he'd kidnapped from a rural roadside. Kevin Ronald Simmons, 45, was a first offender who experts were "cautiously optimistic" could be successfully treated so he wouldn't reoffend, the Court of Appeal said. Preventive detention was for offenders who posed a substantial risk of reoffending.

Preventive detention is an indefinite jail term from which offenders aren't eligible for parole for at least 10 years. Simmons appealed the sentence. The Court of Appeal drew a distinction between Simmons' reluctance to stop wearing nappies for sexual gratification, and his willingness to take treatment to prevent more offending. It said the nappy fetish had been present for most of Simmons' life without being a danger to others. It was the recent involvement of children that needed treatment. Simmons pleaded guilty to charges of sexual violation, kidnapping, indecency and five burglaries.

The more serious charges related to a three-year-old boy snatched from the roadside at Paparoa in Northland on April 9.The burglaries were of isolated farm houses where Simmons broke in and took nappies and baby products. They were his first known offences. The court said the starting point for Simmons' revised sentence was 12 years but three years were taken off because he'd pleaded guilty and co-operated with the police. The Court of Appeal said the effect of the offending on Simmons' victim and the family had been devastating.

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