The Napier man appeared before Judge Geoff Rea in the Napier District Court yesterday by audio visual link on 10 charges detailing sexually violating his partner's daughter in Masterton and Napier between December 2010 and February this year. He admitted five charges of unlawful sexual connection, one of rape, two of indecent assault and two for sexual connection with a young person. The girl's mother, who appeared in the Napier District Court last Wednesday, was also charged after allegedly knowing her daughter was being sexually violated by the man. She also faces a third charge of wilfully neglecting her daughter in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering between December 2010 and December 2012. The man was convicted and remanded in custody until sentencing on April 7.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 08, 2017 17:54 UTC