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Shane Grady Grey

Alias

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Offences

Committing an indecent act (5 representative charges) on two 7 year old girls and a 9 year old girl in Papamoa in April 2007
Previous conviction for indecent assault in 1998, plus 16 other convictions

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1974

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 27 months in July 2008

Background
From the Bay of Plenty Times 23rd July 2008
A Papamoa man "wormed his way" into the confidence of three young girls by offering free horse-riding lessons before he abused them and tried to groom them for his own sexual gratification.

Shane Grady Grey, 34, was sentenced to 27 months in jail yesterday after being found guilty at trial of five counts of committing an indecent act on a girl under 12 years. Tauranga District Court was told that in April last year, Grey indecently touched two seven- year-old girls and a nine-year-old girl who had either stayed at his caravan or whom he had visited at their homes. The victims had all come to know Grey through his offer to give them free riding lessons.

When police, acting on a tip-off from caravan park residents, visited Grey's caravan on April 14, they found one of the younger victims and another girl the same age, one of whom was in a very distressed state. One of the girls later told police that when she had stayed alone with him in a tent at her Papamoa home, he had touched her on the outside of her clothing on her genital area and thighs.

On another occasion, while staying in a caravan at Beach Grove Holiday Park on Papamoa Beach Rd, Grey touched her inside her clothing. Grey abused a second complainant during a stay at his caravan in April 2007 when he put his hand under her top and squeezed her breast area before blowing "raspberries" on her chest. He also touched her buttocks. On another occasion, when Grey was helping the girl mount a horse, he touched her in her groin area.

The older complainant gave evidence that while she was asleep in Grey's caravan, he lifted her top and blew raspberries on her chest and stomach. Crown prosecutor Duncan McWilliam told Judge Thomas Ingram that "at first blush", this offending could be considered relatively minor.

But Mr McWilliam said this was not the case when taking into account Grey's previous conviction for indecent assault in 1998 and that the offending was of the "grooming type".

"This is a man who also simply refuses to accept that he has a problem and the only time he has ever acknowledged his guilt was when he made an admission to the officer in charge but now he seems to have made a complete reversal." He said it was also clear from the pre-sentence report that Grey was trying to shift the blame to his victims, suggesting the whole situation had been misconstrued.

Mr McWilliam said a sentence of home detention was completely out of the question for a raft of reasons, including the unsuitability of the proposed address and Grey's extreme risk of reoffending. While there was no recognised tariff for this type of offending, a prison sentence starting at between 18 months to two years was appropriate, he said. Grey's lawyer Tony Balme said despite the comments his client made to the pre- sentence report writer, he had accepted the jury's verdict and accepted he needed help to overcome his problems.

Mr Balme said because Grey had kept only three appointments with a psychologist, there was no report or useful diagnosis to present to the court in mitigation and therefore it was difficult to argue against imprisonment. Mr Balme said Grey also knew his fate if he failed to take advantage of the treatment programmes on offer to him in prison, or reoffends. Judge Ingram said Grey was a man with 17 prior convictions.

Grey needed to understand that if he reoffended, he could also expect to spend a "very, very long time" in prison. "And I'm talking about decades," Judge Ingram said.

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