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Offender Databases Tukere Ngamanu

Tukere Ngamanu

Alias

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Offences

Sexual violation by rape (x2) and unlawful sexual connection (x2), representative charges relating to a Whakatane girl over four years from when she was aged seven from 2004 until July 2008
Also two burglary charges

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1986

Current Location

Corrections facility

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 11 years with a 5 year 6 month non-parole period in October 2008

Background
From Rotorua Daily Post story 11th October 2008
A 22-year-old Whakatane man has been sentenced to 11 years' jail with a minimum parole period of five years six months for raping a girl.

Tukere Ngamanu appeared for sentencing in the Whakatane District Court before Judge Peter Rollo on representative charges of sexual violation by rape and sexual violation by unlawful section connection and single charges of sexual violation by rape and by unlawful sexual connection. The charges relate to his sexual abuse of a child over a three-year period.

He was jailed to 11 years on the representative counts and six years on the others, the terms to be served concurrently. He had previously pleaded guilty to all the charges.

Judge Rollo said Ngamanu had robbed the girl of what should have been the happiest time in her life - her childhood. "Children are the greatest treasure we have in our community and you have defiled this girl in a cruel way," the judge said. Crown prosecutor Hayley Booth asked for a non-parole period of half the sentence, describing Ngamanu's offending as repeated sexual violation of a child over a long period of time.

Ngamanu told the victim if she told anyone what was happening he would kill her and her mother, the court was told. The offending was uncovered when the victim went to a teacher at her school and Ngamanu admitted everything when first spoken to by police. Ngamanu's lawyer Gene Tomlinson told the court his client was deeply and grossly ashamed of his actions.

"He will not face me, he will not not face his family and he will not allow his mother to visit him in prison. He has said if he looks his mother in the eye he will burst into tears and won't know what to say."

Ngamanu also faced two charges of burglary, for which he was imprisoned for 12 months each plus three months for breaching community work and release conditions, those sentences to be served concurrently

From Rotorua Daily Post story 7th August 2008
A Whakatane man has admitted repeatedly raping and sexually violating a girl for four years.

Tukere Ngamanu, 22, pleaded guilty to two charges of sexual violation by rape and two of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection when he appeared in the Whakatane District Court yesterday. He also pleaded guilty to two charges of burglary.

Police say the sexual offending began in 2004 when the victim was aged seven and continued until Ngamanu was arrested in July this year. It's alleged the victim was sexually violated at least 50 times. He threatened to kill her and her family if she told anyone what was happening. The offending came to light when the victim told a teacher.

When spoken to by police, Ngamanu said he was guilty of everything but he gave no explanation. Judge Arthur Tompkins remanded Ngamanu in custody until September 24 for sentencing.

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