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Junior Faamanetuga Schuster

Alias

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Offences

Two charges of sexual violation by rape and two of indecently assaulting two Porirua girls under 12 in early 1998, giving them both gonorrhoea and chlamydia

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1978

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to nine years in August 1998

Background
From the Evening Post August 1998
Two young girls were given sexually transmitted diseases by the man who raped them, a Wellington District Court judge said yesterday. Judge Anne Gaskell sentenced Junior Faamanetuga Schuster to nine years in jail. Schuster, 20, unemployed, of Cannons Creek, had been found guilty of two charges of sexual violation by rape and two of indecently assaulting girls under 12.

Judge Gaskell said the rapes took place at the homes of the Samoan girls, to whom English was a second language. They lived in strict religious households. She said Schuster had known their brothers and had been invited to their homes. The first rape took place while one girl was being looked after by her grandmother. Schuster raped the girl, ignoring her screams.

Judge Gaskell said the second rape was in one of the girls' bedrooms. Schuster was at the house for a party. He went up to the room and locked the door. He raped one girl while holding the arm of the other so she could not escape. Schuster also indecently assaulted both girls. She said Schuster had gonorrhoea and chlamydia at the time of the rapes.

The girls had both contracted painful genital infections that later cleared up but it was uncertain whether they can have children. "You took their childhood away and their sense of being safe in their own homes," she said. Judge Gaskell said both girls were worried about not being pure any more. "You have shown no remorse . . . (you) used them to satisfy your own desires with utter disregard for them," she said.

Defence counsel Val Nisbet said Schuster maintained his innocence but accepted the verdicts and acknowledged he would go to prison. He said Schuster had become isolated from his family when he came to New Zealand in 1996, after he opted to attend a different church from the one his brothers.

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