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Roy Bailey
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Numerous convictions for sexual offences involving young boys up to 1998
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none known
Born 1967
Prison
Sentenced to seven years in April 1998, later sentenced to preventive detention
Background
Dominion. Wellington, Jun 9, 1998
A paedophile admitted more sex charges when he appeared in the High Court at Auckland yesterday. Roy David Bailey, 31, of Papatoetoe, was jailed in April for seven years for sex offences against a teenage boy. Yesterday he admitted a further 10 charges involving five boys.
Dominion Post. Wellington, Aug 13, 2004
CORRECTIONS MINISTER Paul Swain has rebuked his department for allowing a paedophile prisoner to raise money for children with cancer without revealing his past.
"I do not think it is appropriate that a convicted paedophile is organising a fundraising event for the Child Cancer Foundation," Mr Swain told Parliament yesterday.
And he said he would demand that the department develop policies and rules for any inmates' involvement in charity work.
When confronted about Roy David Bailey this week, Corrections staff told The Dominion Post the foundation "had no need to know" about his past when he approached it recently with a fundraising idea.
Bailey, 31, has been repeatedly jailed for sexual assaults on boys and is considered such a risk he was sentenced to preventive detention when last jailed in 1998. The foundation has said it assumed Bailey was a prison officer, not an inmate, and he began sending out letters soliciting sponsors for the fundraiser. One of those was sent this week to ACT MP Deborah Coddington who recognised Bailey as a repeat offender mentioned in her NZ Paedophile and Sex Offenders Index. Sex abuse counsellors say it is dangerous for high-risk offenders to be involved in child-focused activities because it can fuel their sexual fantasies.
Yesterday, Ms Coddington asked Mr Swain if he would apologise "to the Child Cancer Foundation, MPs, and the public who have been manipulated by Bailey with the approval of Corrections". Mr Swain ruled out an apology but said: "I'm going to do something about making sure that these kinds of things don't happen again." He also indicated displeasure in the department that has had various public relations disasters, including the "goon squad", a renegade group of prison officers accused of prisoner mistreatment.
Asked by NZ First MP Ron Mark how many times he was prepared to be embarrassed by the "shoddy management practices of his department", Mr Swain said: "Hopefully not many more." Corrections and the Child Cancer Foundation will meet in the next few days to decide if the fundraising relay planned by Bailey, involving 33 inmates in his segregated unit, will go ahead.
Asked to explain why Corrections did not believe the charity needed to know about Bailey, Phil McCarthy, general manager public prisons, said: "It's the department's standard practice not to divulge or discuss individual offenders' criminal history. However, this incident has highlighted a need for a policy governing inmates' fundraising activities."
Bailey's unit has also raised money for World Vision. But that charity's chief, Helen Green, said it liaised with a prison chaplain who was organising that event. Ms Coddington said the fiasco over Bailey could have been avoided if her private member's bill setting in place a register of sex offenders was law. National Party law and order spokesman Tony Ryall said the incident was indefensible. "What's even more shocking is the fact that prison supervisors must have approved sending out a letter that didn't clearly identify Bailey as an inmate."
