A man has pleaded guilty in Kaikoura district court to downloading more than 6,000 images of child exploitation and abuse after joining an on-line child porn chat group.

He has been given interim name suppression, the reason for which has been withheld. It is believed this may be the 19 year old man we wrote about in May.

According to a report by the Marlborough Express on July 24 2015…

The man’s offending began in early 2013 when he filmed and photographed intimate images of a young child in underwear, a court summary of facts showed.

He told police he had a sexual interest in young children under 9-years-old.  A year later the man became involved in an online chat group which shared photographic and video images of child abuse and sexual exploitation, including bondage.

He portrayed himself online as someone who could access “fresh” material of young children, the summary said. To access child pornographic images he became a “VIP client” by using encrypted connection data to mask his internet protocol address and provide online anonymity.

He posted online messages asking for support to start a group where parents could swap ‘pics’ of their children with others…

After executing a search warrant last year, the Department of Internal Affairs discovered

“more than 4,000 image files and 200 videos of “child sexual abuse and exploitation depicting children under 5-years-old on the man’s cellphone and laptop”

Then last year he was caught with more materials when he re-entered New Zealand after returning from abroad. He told customs officers at Auckland airport he’d been accessing child porn since he was 16.

The man has been remanded on strict bail pending trial 11 remaining offences brought by a group of agenices, the charges will all be heard together.

A date for that trial will be set after a case review hearing in Kaikoura on August 21. Read the full story here.

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What is it with the Kaikoura paedos and sex pests?; and there’s still no sex offenders register for NZ (May 2015)

For a village of under 4,000 people Kaikoura seems to have more than its fair share of paedophiles and other sex offenders.

On the 4th of May a woman in her early 20s was subjected to a sex attack in Kaikoura just after 6pm.

A 19 year old Kaikoura man has just been granted name suppression and remanded on 62 child pornography charges, he’s due to appear in court again on 26 June.

The customs service laid 21 charges against him for importing and exporting objectionable images. In addition, 36 charges of making and disturbing objectionable publications (videos and photos) were lodged by the Department of Internal Affairs. Police laid another 5 charges for making an intimate visual recording of another person.

Meanwhile, a 59 year old Kaikoura  man, is still on remand for 37 sex-related charges.

The man, who had name suppression, is charged with historic sex offences involving three different girls from 1983 – 1993. He’s charged with assault, indecent acts, sexual violation, detaining a person without consent and rape. He’s next due to appear in court on 8 June for a case review.

In December we wrote about the 66 year old Arthur Samuel Roy Senior who was found guilty on 35 charges of rape, sexual violation, sexual grooming, attempted rape, having unlawful sexual connection, indecent assault, making objectionable publications and supplying class C drugs. His prey was teenage girls from around the Blenheim and Kaikoura area. They were aged 15-18 at the time of the attacks. source

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