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Jason Scott Sheehan

Alias

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Offences

Indecent assault of a Hamilton boy between 12-16 years in 1999

Victims

Christopher Schwartz

Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1972

Current Location

At large in Utuhina, Rotorua

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 9 months in August 2009, ordered to do a sexual assesment in prison, denied leave to apply for home detention
Released May 2010

Background
From Waikato Times story 28th August 2009
A Hamilton man says his life has been destroyed by the man who paid him $50,000 after sexually assaulting him. In the Hamilton District Court yesterday, Jason Sheehan was sentenced to nine months' jail after earlier pleading guilty to indecently assaulting a person aged between 12 and 16 years.

On six occasions between February and July 1999, Sheehan, now 37, indecently assaulted the victim, who was 15 years old and living with him at the time because his parents had separated. In a statement received by the Waikato Times the victim, who cannot be named, said he now struggled to maintain relationships and regular employment because of the emotional damage Sheehan had done to him.

"I am 25 now. To have this happen to me has distroyed [sic] my life, not only in relationships, [but] in work and trusting others," the victim wrote. "I want to get married, buy a home and settle down [but] I can't do any of those things because of this man. "I have had to do counselling most of life. I get nightmares from the abuse very regular[ly]." Crown prosecutor Shelia Cameron said Sheehan's actions were deliberate.

"It is always the circumstances of an assault that make it indecent, and in these circumstances, highly indecent." Defence counsel Kerry Tustin argued home detention was an option for Sheehan, who had been co-operative with police during questioning and remained remorseful throughout. "He is ashamed about his offending ... he knows his actions were wrong," Ms Tustin said of Sheehan, who had paid the victim more than $50,000 money to "redress" the offending over the "last few years".

Judge Merelina Burnett did not agree, and asserted that the nine-month sentence represented "society's repugnance of the circumstances of this kind of offending". "This kind of offending is known to have profound affect on its victims." "There was a significant breach of trust when the victim was in some turmoil," Judge Burnett said. Judge Burnett said the sentence had been reduced from a starting point of 18 months' because of an early guilty plea.

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