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Offender Databases Faamanatuga Seumanutafa

Faamanatuga Seumanutafa

Alias

Junior Fa'amanetaga Schuster

Offences

Rape and indecent assault of two Porirua girls aged 10 and 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

At large in Samoa

Parole/Release Dates

Was sentenced to 9 years in August 1998
Paroled December 2003

Background
Background from an Evening Post article 7 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 house holds.

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 went to. Mr Nisbet said Schuster had the support of his church.

Also from the Dominion Post 29 June 2004
A CONVICTED rapist presents a continuing risk to the public and should be deported back to Samoa, the Deportation Review Tribunal has found. Faamanatuga Seumanutafa, 25, also known as Junior Schuster, had appealed against an order to deport him issued by the immigration minister last May. It followed his 1998 conviction for indecent assault and two counts of rape, for which he was sentenced to nine years jail. His two victims were aged between 10 and 12. He served just over five years of his sentence and was released on parole last December.

According to the tribunal decision issued yesterday, Seumanutafa who held a residence visa had told the tribunal he wanted to stay in New Zealand, where he had the support of his church and where he believed he had a better chance of being rehabilitated. He had denied his wrongdoing for some time but felt remorse after attending a sex offender programme. He wrote it would be "emotionally shattering" to be forced back to Samoa and said he believed he had served his penalty. But the tribunal said: "We find that it is contrary to the public interest for the appellant to remain in New Zealand." The lawyer for the immigration minister, Andrew Gain, said there was no guarantee Seumanutafa would not reoffend.

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