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Offender Databases Taotafa Polaia

Taotafa Polaia

Alias

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Offences

Sexual violation (x2) of a woman in Palmerston North in October 2010

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1976

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to just 2 years in November 2011

Background
Manawatu Standard story here
A judge has told a Palmerston North man that he should have stopped his further advances when the woman said no, despite some canoodling earlier in the evening. In the Palmerston North District Court yesterday, Taotafa Polaia, 35, was jailed for two years on two sexual violation charges. Earlier this year he was found guilty by a jury, and Judge Nevin Dawson said Polaia's pre-sentence report showed he still denied what happened and expressed no remorse. Rather, he was concerned about his wife and his family – whom he had temporarily separated from when the offending took place in late October last year.

Judge Dawson said that on that night, Polaia and the woman he violated – who was much younger – had been drinking. The pair then attended a function at a Palmerston North school, before buying alcohol and going to a party. "At the party the victim went into the toilet. You followed her in and there was consensual kissing," the judge told Polaia. After the party the woman went to a pub in town, then a friend's place, before finally walking to Polaia's lodgings – saying she wanted to get her shoes to walk home.

She was persuaded to go to bed with Polaia. Again the pair kissed, but the woman told him to stop when he wanted to go further. He ignored her warnings – twice violating her, while attempting to cover the woman's mouth. "You persisted despite her efforts to stop you," Judge Dawson told Polaia. "Consensual sexual activity prior to the offending does not mean that when a woman says no she really means yes."Defence lawyer Tony Thackery said when the woman left Polaia's place, she drove his car home where her partner smashed it up.

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