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Thursday March 16 2023 The Star Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz NEWS 13 Parole Board refuses to let serial rapist return to Canty • By Anna leask A RECIDIVIST rapist released on parole on the condition he did not enter Canterbury has failed in a bid to move into the region to a small town where one of his victims has strong connections. She said the prospect of Tavita Tuetue moving back near his “hunting ground” was “disturbing” – particularly when he could be using a different name after discovering his birth name was different to the name he was convicted under. And the fact he had even tried to return anywhere near the “scene of the crime” was “a kick in the guts” to her and the other women he harmed. Tuetue spent more than two decades behind bars after committing a horrifying series of sex attacks in Christchurch which began in 1980. He was jailed several times before finally being sentenced to preventive detention – an openended prison term – in 2004. Tuetue, now 66, was released in December 2021 and the Parole Board imposed a raft of conditions that will remain in place for the rest of his life, including electronic monitoring and a ban from entering “the Canterbury area” and Wellington. He was released to a supported accommodation specialist facility and, at several monitoring hearings, the Parole Board heard he was “doing very well,” complying with all of his conditions and the rules at his accommodation and participating in a reintegration programme. Tuetue told the Parole Board he wanted to relocate to live with a supporter – in a rural Canterbury town. The town where one of his victims has strong connections is in the Selwyn District. Corrections told the Parole Board it supported the application and Tuetue had made “significant progress with his rehabilitation and reintegration and has had good compliance to date.” It also said the two victims living in New Zealand had been contacted and “have no objections” to the amended exclusion zone. However, one woman said that was simply not true. She told the Parole Board she was “disturbed” by the application, had not been contacted by Corrections about it, and strongly opposed it. She said she had family living near where Tuetue proposed to live and some relatives had business interests in the town. She did not want to run the risk of seeing Tuetue and told the Parole Board that given one of his victims was a neighbour, she had concerns for the community. Police also had “concerns” about the move, the Parole Board heard. Ultimately, the Parole Board declined the application, saying there was not enough information presented to satisfy them the move would be safe. The Parole Board said Tuetue could reapply in future but would need to provide “a more TAVITA TUETUE’s offending in 1988 and 1994 resulted in convictions for unlawful sexual connection with a woman over 16, male rapes a woman over 16, and enters with intent. “There were two separate incidents, Mr Tuetue forced entry into the victim’s properties, he confronted them in their beds and restrained them,” the Parole Board outlined in a report before his release. “He threatened them and then he violated them. He was identified with DNA.” In 1980, Tuetue was jailed for three years for raping a woman with a weapon. He also has two convictions for offending in 1997 – assault with intent to commit sexual connection and indecent assault. Tuetue told the Parole Board because of the “harassment” he robust proposal.” “Without pre-empting any decisions . . . it is likely that a board is going to struggle to agree to Mr Tuetue moving into the defined exclusion zone,” said Parole Board panel convener Mary More. Tuetue’s victim said the application was “an insult and a kick in the guts.” “He basically wanted to return to his hunting ground,” she said. “I don’t want him back in the Canterbury area at all . . . it’s pretty disrespectful that he even had been subjected to, he had an anger that he satisfied with sexual violation. “He said it took coming to jail to understand what was behind the offending, and he has asked, given the fact he showed no mercy to his victims, showed no remorse. “If he really had a moral compass, which I don’t think he does, he wouldn’t even be asking.” She was also concerned that Tuetue would hide behind a new name. In one of the Parole Board monitoring hearings it was revealed that Tuetue had “recently been informed that his proper family name is Fa’afoi.” “But he told us that the name Tuetue refers to his father’s chiefly status and he had no objection to our continuing to refer to him by that name, which is used consistently throughout the Corrections’ records,” the Parole Board report stated. The victim said using the alternative name could allow Tuetue to fly under the radar which she did not want to happen. “My primary concern is that he can just effectively get on with his life . . . that he can use another name and nobody will know who he is and what he did,” she said. “He’s got a long history of offending . . . he was pretty prolific . . . he’s just a creep. “He gets out to live his life and try to put his past behind him and probably use a new name, but I have to carry this all day, every day. This is not about vilifying him, it’s about letting the community know because I would never forgive myself if this learned how to manage it,” an earlier parole report stated. “He said he has learned to recognise when it is becoming angry, what is happening with his moods, happened to somebody else. “I could never live with myself.” The woman appreciated the parole process and the fact that offenders had to live somewhere when released from prison – but said it was not acceptable for her attacker to be anywhere near her or places she frequently visited. “None of us deserved what happened to us, I never thought in a million years it would ever happen . . . and I have serious misgivings that it won’t happen to someone else. It could have been far worse and I am grateful it wasn’t but I still have a horrible legacy to have to live with.” •SEXUAL HARM – DO YOU NEED HELP? If it’s an emergency and you feel that you or someone else is at risk, call 111. If you’ve ever experienced sexual assault or abuse and need to talk to someone contact the Safe to Talk confidential crisis helpline on: •Text 4334 and they will respond •Email support@ safetotalk.nz •Visit https://safetotalk.nz/ contact-us/for an online chat Alternatively, contact your local police station at www. police.govt.nz/contact-us/ stations/a2z If you’ve been abused, remember it’s not your fault. Tuetue’s litany of sexual offending and how to reframe it.” The victim who spoke to the NZ Herald was only a teenager in 1988, flatting for the first time in Christchurch. When the woman’s flatmate left for work early one morning, Tuetue crept in and held a pillow over her face to stifle the screams. “He told me he was going to kill me,” she said. “I was absolutely terrified.” Chillingly, she later discovered that, just like Tuetue had with other victims, he had stalked her and waited for an opportune moment to pounce. While his victim was now happily married with children, the mental scars remained in the form of PTSD and longstanding night terrors. “I never ever feel safe in my own home,” she said. “He took away the best years of my life as a young adult.”
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