{"id":18252,"date":"2026-08-18T05:50:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=18252"},"modified":"2026-08-18T05:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:50:41","slug":"waikato-man-jason-goodwin-raped-young-girl-then-took-explicit-images-to-use-as-blackmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=18252","title":{"rendered":"Waikato man Jason Goodwin raped young girl, then took explicit images to use as blackmail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WARNING: This story is about sexual offending and may be distressing for some people.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A man raped a young girl before taking photos of her in sexually explicit poses, which he threatened to use against her if she told anyone what happened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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About a year later, Jason Goodwin forced a second, even younger victim to perform sexual acts on him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Now the parents of both victims are worried for their children’s future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Goodwin, 56, appeared in Hamilton District Court on Friday for sentencing on eight charges, including rape, sexual conduct with a child under 16, making an intimate visual recording, and four charges of sexual violation with unlawful sexual connection, relating to two separate sexual assaults.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The mother of the first victim, A, vented her anger and disgust at the man who had upended her daughter’s life, and saw him jailed by Judge Philip Crayton.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The judge described the offending as “very serious” and “degrading”, while A’s mother said she lived with guilt for not being able to protect her daughter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Seeing her daughter self-harm in the years after the assaults, “broke me”, she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I see her struggle… I failed to protect her when she needed me most.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I will hold this guilt for the rest of my life.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Most details of Goodwin’s offending cannot be reported due to the victims’ automatic name suppression, but it can be described as expansive and degrading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Goodwin held his first young victim down and raped her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“She was yelling at you to get off you, and tried to push you away,” the judge said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He then took photos, “in the most sexually explicit way”, before telling her he would publish them online if she told anyone what happened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The second victim was even younger than the first.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Over about 12 months, he forced her to perform sexual acts on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Judge Crayton said given her young age, she had no appreciation of the abuse Goodwin was subjecting her to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Crown prosecutor Amy Alcock said as Goodwin pleaded on the morning of trial, she suggested a credit of 10 percent, given the victims didn’t have to give evidence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, there was nothing in the prepared reports that indicated remorse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“There’s no insight but no denial at least,” the judge replied.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“It’s not a mitigation but at least… there’s not been a ‘Oh I only entered a plea to get it over and done with’.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Alcock labelled the offending as “degrading” and a “predatory course of sexual abuse”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Prison is really the only outcome here today.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She pushed for a starting point of 11-and-a-half-years, with an uplift of four to five years for the first victim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She also pushed for a minimum term of imprisonment [MPI] of at least 50 percent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Judge Crayton said he would issue one, but it was a matter of how long.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The MPI was the main issue of contention for Goodwin’s lawyer, Scarlett Hartstone, who acknowledged the “grave” offending and that a long sentence of imprisonment was warranted, but urged the judge against issuing an MPI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Judge Crayton said the offending had been “utterly life-changing”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“You have robbed that child who you abused of their adolescence, of their innocence… you have taken away their opportunity to live a normal life.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He noted that his pleas came when the victims would have expected to give evidence, but the fact that they didn’t had to be acknowledged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He accepted Goodwin’s offending could be properly categorised as “predatory”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The scale of offending was significant, and aggravated by his threat to post images online and “blackmail her into silence”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The pictures were “plainly degrading”, while the harm to the victims was high.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It was hoped that with sentencing, the healing process for both victims could begin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The judge took an overall starting point of 15 years’ jail before allowing 10 percent for his guilty pleas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Judge Crayton jailed Goodwin for 13 years and six months and issued an MPI of 45 percent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, he noted that Goodwin would be unlikely to attend rehabilitative courses until he neared the end of his MPI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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– This story originally appeared in the\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>New Zealand Herald<\/a><\/p>\n

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