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Tau Taingahue

Alias

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Offences

Assaulted a woman in Hamilton with intent to sexually violate her in late 2005

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1971

Current Location

At large in Lower Hutt or Palmerston North

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 3 years 6 months in August 2006
Was paroled - but went missing in December 2008

Background
Waikato Times story August 2006
A Hamilton man who thought all his Christmases had come at once has been told he will spend the next few behind bars. Tau Taingahue, 35, was out on the town in Hamilton and met a woman. His lawyer, Kerry Burroughs, told the Hamilton District Court yesterday they walked down the road hand in hand. She smiled at him, he got excited and thought "all his Christmases had come at once", Mr Burroughs said. But Crown prosecutor Tini Clark said Taingahue, of Hamilton, had "lured" the woman away. He overpowered the victim, forced her into the bushes and began to remove her lower clothing and undo his own clothing, she said.

Passers-by heard her screams and came to the rescue. "If it had not been for that intervention the victim was likely to have been raped," she said. Taingahue was yesterday sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison after admitting a charge of assault with intent to sexually violate. Mr Burroughs said Taingahue had "cognition issues". "This was a serious misunderstanding by my client about what was permissible and what was not," he said. The woman was not "lured away" but had gone willingly, he said. Judge Arthur Tompkins said the victim suffered ongoing traumatic effects after the attack and did not trust people she met socially. He said Taingahue was at high risk of reoffending because he continued to deny and minimise his offending and had low motivation to address his problems.

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