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Offender Databases Kenneth Cheesman

Kenneth Herbert Cheesman

Alias

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Offences

25 counts of rape, indecent assault, digital penetration and attempted rape against 8 victims, some under 12 from 1985
to 2000 in Hamilton. Also has previous convictions for sexual offences on minors in 1969, 1972 and 1990

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1938

Current Location

At large in the Waikato

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 12 years with a 6 year minimum non-parole period in August 2002
Released April 2010

Background
From Dominion Post story Aug 3rd 2002
A Waikato man with a 50-year history of sexually abusing children has been jailed for 12 years. Kenneth Herbert Cheesman, 64, pleaded guilty in the High Court at Hamilton to 25 charges against eight girls, including rape, attempted rape, indecent assault, inducing a girl to do an indecent act and unlawful sexual connection. Sentencing Cheesman to a non-parole period of six years, Justice Randerson said there was an "alarming" risk that Cheesman, who started abusing children as a teenager, would reoffend.

The court was told Cheesman began preying on children when he was 13, as the result of being sexually abused himself. He had previous convictions for sex crimes against children committed in 1969, 1972 and 1990, including a 21-month prison sentence handed down in 1991. The latest attacks happened between 1985 and 1990 in Hamilton, Raglan and Te Kuiti. Cheesman initially denied the charges. But then he confessed and named victims police had not known about. He told police he had an "uncontrollable addiction".

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