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Offender Databases Richard Kinchant

Richard Paul William Kinchant

Alias

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Offences

62 sex charges involving eight boys and four girls aged between nine and 16 in Palmerston North and Auckland from 1994 to April 1997
Three previous convictions for child molesting

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1953

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to preventive detention in April 1998

Background
From the Evening Post, April 1998
They were enticements few solo mothers could hope to match. Weekends away at motor rallies around the North Island and $100 spending sprees at fun parks were two of the baits Richard Paul William Kinchant used to lure his 12 young victims from their homes.

A serial child molester who used his rally car to entice children away on overnight trips during four years of offending, Kinchant, 45, was sentenced in the High Court at Auckland yesterday to preventive detention.

The Palmerston North vending machine technician, who pleaded guilty to 62 sex charges involving eight boys and four girls aged between nine and 16, may never leave prison as a result of the open- ended sentence imposed by Justice Williams.

But the mother of two of the boys said Kinchant's victims might pay for his depravity for the rest of their lives. Speaking outside the court, she said Kinchant deserved to spend the rest of his life in prison: "As far as I'm concerned, he can stay there. "He would offer to take them away to rally events and places like Rainbow's End which I couldn't afford. I couldn't say no to the boys, it would have started World War Three."

She denied the accused access to the boys after confronting him with her concerns in January last year. "I sat down with Richard and asked him why he wasn't married, and he couldn't look me in the face. His reply was that he couldn't find a girl who was interested in cars." The trauma of the offending had left her eldest son, now aged 15, with stomach ulcers. Both boys had developed sleeping problems. Justice Williams said the victim impact reports for the children violated by the accused made "chilling reading".

Kinchant's reoffending began a year after his release from prison in 1993, and continued until his arrest in April last year. Unknown to the solo parents who trusted him with their children, he had three previous convictions for child molesting, and had twice failed the Kia Marama rehabilitation programme for sex offenders.The South Auckland police officer in charge of the case, Detective James Sutherland, described Kinchant as "one of the worst paedophiles we've had in recent times". He said the victims were relieved that the guilty pleas had spared them the ordeal of a trial.

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