The Herald reports:
A Timaru teenager who admitted “depraved” and repeated sexual assaults on a young girl – the most “unusual” the sentencing judge has encountered in more than 20 years on the bench – has avoided prison.
Blake Ivan Miller, 19, pleaded guilty to “extremely serious” charges and was facing seven years behind bars.
But 75% of the sentence was cut due to his personal circumstances meaning he will serve just 10 months’ home detention.
Appalling. These crimes have a maximum sentence of 20 years and he got home detention for less than a year.
“I just want justice for our daughter and having him do 10 months’ home detention is not justice – just a nice long holiday for him.”
And a lifetime sentence for the victim.
Now the “good” news is that in future a sentencing discount of more than 40% won’t be available.
But the bad news is that the proposed new three strikes law wouldn’t have his offending even count as a strike, because he got a sentence of under two years.
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