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Offender Databases Tunuiarangi Tautuhi

Tunuiarangi Tautuhi

Alias

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Offences

Abducted a girl in 1971, attempted sexual intercourse with an eight year old girl in 1986, then sexually abused more young girls in 1988, latest conviction was two counts of sexual violation by rape and two of rendering a 10 year old girl incapable of resistance with intent to rape her in 1996

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1932

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to preventive detention with a ten year minimum non-parole period in May 1997

Background
Dominion story from mid 1997
A 65-YEAR-OLD used his position as a Maori elder to gain the confidence of the parents of the prepubescent girls he abused, prosecutor Lisa Boon said in the High Court at Wellington yesterday. Miss Boon said this as part of her successful argument for Tunuiarangi Tautuhi to be given an indefinite sentence of preventive detention for sexually abusing a nine-year-old girl in Lower Hutt last year. The preventive detention sentence means Tautuhi must serve 10 years before being considered for parole.

Tautuhi was first convicted of abducting a girl in 1971 and his sex abuse convictions culminated in an eight-year sentence for sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl in 1988. Miss Boon said Tautui befriended the parents of his victims using a quasi-religious approach to families who respected him as an elder within the Maori community. Justice Neazor said Tautuhi blamed his victims for his offences, showed no remorse and there was a real risk of him ruining another young girl's life if he was left to go free after a shorter sentence.

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