Warning: This story contains details of sexual offending against a child and may be upsetting.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
A middle-aged man with no previous criminal history will spend the next 10 months wearing an ankle bracelet after a jury found him guilty of sexual offending against a young boy.<\/p>\n
Hastings man Anthony Raymond Quinney, 50, photographed the boy with his togs down while on an outing to Cape Kidnappers.<\/p>\n
He later indecently touched him in a bed at a motel.<\/p>\n
The Napier District Court was told on Thursday that Quinney still denied that he committed the offences after facing two charges of doing an indecent act with a boy under 12.<\/p>\n
However, a jury found earlier that Quinney did offend against the boy during a birthday trip in December 2021.<\/p>\n
“The jury did not accept your version of events was … reasonably plausible,” Judge Bridget Mackintosh told him.<\/p>\n
Judge Mackintosh said Quinney had no criminal record, financially supported his parents and had been a generous donor to charity.<\/p>\n
She told Quinney that it was difficult to see where the offending had come from, because in many respects he had been “doing the right thing”.<\/p>\n
However, she said on the trip to Cape Kidnappers that Quinney had taken the boy, who was not related to him, to a secluded spot. He asked him to remove his togs and photographed him.<\/p>\n
He told the boy that he needed to practise taking photos.<\/p>\n
He later took the boy and another child that was with them to a motel, where age-appropriate activities were set up for them, including video games.<\/p>\n
However, Quinney insisted they sleep in the same bed, where indecent touching took place.<\/p>\n
Judge Mackintosh said the offending had “taken its toll” on the boy’s family and a victim impact statement from his mother said the boy is now anxious and withdrawn, and demonstrating a lack of trust in men.<\/p>\n
He is receiving counselling and therapy and the “ripple effect” of the offending is affecting others in the family.<\/p>\n
Judge Mackintosh sentenced Quinney to 10 months of home detention, 80 hours of community work and ordered that he pay $5000 to the boy in reparation for emotional harm.<\/p>\n
She suggested the money might be used for continuing counselling.<\/p>\n
The judge also imposed six months of conditions after the home detention finishes, including having no unsupervised contact with people under the age of 16.<\/p>\n
Judge Mackintosh declined to add Quinney’s name to the child sex offender register, saying he would be intensely monitored during his home detention and post-detention conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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