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Robert Bruce Miller

Alias

Bruce Miller

Offences

Rape and indecent assault (x4) committed between 1979 and 1984 and about 1987 and 1990 on three Hawke's Bay girls were variously aged between 10 and 13 years
Rape (x2) and indecent assault (x6) of a boy and two girls between 1954 and 1968 including trying to make a boy have sex with a dog
He sexually assaulted the boy over four years from the age of four

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1940

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to seven years in August 2008

Background
Offender is unrepetant to his victims and constitutes an ongoing threat

From the Hawkes Bay Today 6th September 2008
A Napier man was yesterday found guilty of sex offences with three children, just a week after being jailed for offences with three others dating back 50 years, and including trying to make a boy have sex with a dog. Robert Bruce Miller, known as Bruce Miller and now aged 68, was convicted on one charge of rape and four of indecent assault, for offences between 1979 and 1984, and about 1987 and 1990, when the girls were variously aged between 10 and 13 years.

At the start of his trial before Justice Robert Dobson in the High Court in Napier on Wednesday, Miller admitted three other charges of indecently assaulting the rape victim. Last week he was sentenced to three- and-a-half years' jail on two charges of rape and six of indecent assault which he denied at another trial earlier this year, relating to allegations by a boy and two girls of offences between 1954 and 1968.

In an investigation which began in November 2005, he was also once charged with sodomising a cow, bestiality with a pig, and an indecent act with a mare, but the Crown decided against proceeding with the charges after a lower court hearing. Yesterday's verdicts came after a jury of nine women and three men deliberated for about five hours. Standing between two prison officers, the diminutive Miller said nothing as the verdicts were delivered about 3.30pm, with clear signs of relief from a victim in the public gallery as one verdict confirmed a complaint that a girl had been raped in Miller's lounge.

The paedophile's reaction contrasted with his sentencing seven days earlier, when he told Justice Alan MacKenzie he had no knowledge of one incident in which he had allegedly made a girl available to a friend for sex, and claimed an incident in which a boy was penetrated by a dog was not his fault, and only happened when the dog jumped in. This week's trial was told inquiries were initiated when a woman contacted authorities late in 2005. The investigation spread to several others, including resurrecting complaints made by two girls, but not prosecuted in the early 1990s, and unveiling secrets held by another two girls and a boy for up to half a century. Among the charges in court this week was one that Miller sexually touched a girl, as he made her take the steering wheel of his car while he was driving her home from a babysitting assignment.

She told the court that because she could never forget what happened, her fears at the wheel of a car meant she had never learned to drive. Miller gave evidence, claiming one of the complainants, when she was aged about 12, tried to initiate sex with him for pocket money. Yesterday, Justice Dobson rejected defence counsel Jonathan Krebs' application for name suppression, which was partly based on the grounds of Miller's ill-health, including a heart murmur. Justice Dobson thanked the jurors for their time during an "arduous" task which they had done well. Miller was remanded in custody for sentencing on October 10.

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