NEW ZEALAND
NZ City
The family of one of the victims of a Kaitaia business leader who sexually abused boys say his jail sentence is a “joke”.
Former senior member of the Mormon Church Daniel Taylor, 35, was sentenced to five years and seven months’ jail for nine counts of sexual offences against boys aged between 11 and 16 that he pleaded guilty to in September.
A number of the charges were representative.
In the High Court at Whangarei on Thursday, Justice Peter Woodhouse imposed a minimum non-parole period of two years and 10 months on Roberts.
It provoked disappointment from victims and their families.
Charles Hohaia, Te Waka Whaanui director and a counsellor, says families of the victims he talked to were disappointed by the sentence given that victims would need to live with what had happened to them for the rest of their lives.
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