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Keith William Honey

Alias

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Offences

Unlawful sexual connection (x2) and indecent assault on a Waihi boy aged seven during 2000 and 2001
Prior similar offending

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1973

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to five years in November 2009
Declined parole July 2011
Next parole hearing July 2012

Background
NZ Herald story here
Waikato Times story here

From the Bay of Plenty Times 17th November 2009
The parents of a Waihi boy who was sexually molested for 18 months have spoken of their relief the offender has been jailed for five years, but say their son has a life sentence.

Former mine worker Keith William Honey, 36, was sentenced in Hamilton District Court after he pleaded guilty to two charges of unlawful sexual connection with a boy under the age of 12 and one charge of indecent assault on a boy under 12. Honey, of Waihi, committed the offending in 2000 and 2001 when the boy was aged 7 to 8-and-a-half.

The parents, who cannot be named, said Honey had befriended their family and began "grooming" their son when he was just five. Pressured to keep the abuse a secret, the boy was afraid to speak out until April this year. "It crushes us each time we think of how long that little, wee boy carried around all those horrendous secrets.

"We thought we had taught him all the right things like stranger danger ... (but) how do you warn your child against someone you were hoodwinked into believing was a family friend?" They describe their son as "the most amazing kid" for his courage. "He has had to relive the things that Keith subjected him to [and] has returned to having horrendous night terrors."

Their son has also required medical attention for breakdowns that rendered him temporarily incoherent and incapable of walking; and has been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder for which he is receiving counselling. Although he has "a long road ahead", if he'd continued to carry his devastating burden alone he would likely have been a suicide victim, says his father. "We could have been burying him." As well as bringing Honey's offending to light, the parents want to see reforms to the justice system, such as consistency of sentencing and limits on where an accused or convicted sex offender can live.

To their amazement, Honey was initially bailed to an address within a few hundred metres of a school, a kindergarten, and a daycare facility. The couple are angry, too, that Honey was granted name suppression despite their request to the contrary, after he had pleaded guilty in August. Suppression was lifted last week when he was sentenced.

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