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Bay of Plenty Snapchat predator Raveen Saily admits further offending
By Hannah Bartlett of Snapchat predator Raveen Saily has pleaded guilty to new charges related to grooming and indecent communication with an 11-year-old girl. Photo: NZME Warning: This story deals with details of sexual assault against young people, and may be distressing. Snapchat predator Raveen Saily was on bail, awaiting a rape trial , when he filmed a 13-year-old Rotorua girl performing a sexual act on him. Now it's been revealed the 23-year-old sent that video to an 11-year-old Auckland girl he'd met through Snapchat, whom he'd asked to be his girlfriend, and was also grooming. On Tuesday in the Tauranga District Court, Saily pleaded guilty to grooming for sexual conduct with a young person, indecent communication with a young person and distributing objectionable material. The charges all relate to the Auckland victim. He will be sentenced in December, along with charges related to the sexual violation of the 13-year-old victim from Rotorua. A police summary of facts reveals Saily met the 11-year-old through Snapchat in May 2024. At the time, he was awaiting trial on charges of indecent assault, rape and sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection, for an attack on a 16-year-old girl at the Arataki Community Centre in Mount Maunganui. He had also met that teen on Snapchat, where he used the alias "John", and was found guilty by a jury, on all six charges, in August last year. While awaiting trial, Saily continued to contact girls on Snapchat. This was despite bail conditions banning him from accessing the internet, having contact with anyone under 16, or leaving his Pyes Pā home at night. When spoken to by police about his contact with the 11-year-old, he told them he "probably did do these things, but he cannot remember specifics due to the volume of girls he was in communication with, and the time that has passed since his incarceration". Saily never met the 11-year-old victim in person; they lived in different cities and communicated on Snapchat. Their relationship was discovered when the girl's mother looked at her phone, saw the messaging and reported it to police. The police summary of facts stated that during a video call, Saily asked the girl to be his girlfriend. She told him she was only 11, and too young to have a boyfriend. However, Saily continued to pressure her until she agreed, and their conversations continued over text and Snapchat, and audio and video calls. She became "increasingly emotionally dependent" on Saily, believing she was in a relationship with him. Saily told the 11-year-old he loved her, while encouraging her to send him sexually explicit images. He would ask her to "get naked", and tell her about his sexual preferences, describing himself as "freaky". He told her she would be a "good SCAT girl", which describes sexual arousal from faecal matter. He would direct her to places in the house away from her caregiver, while on video calls, and instruct her to perform sexual acts while he watched. He told her he wanted to drive from Tauranga to have sex with her. In June 2024, he filmed the 13-year-old victim from Rotorua performing a sexual act on himself, and sent it to the 11-year-old. The video of the 13-year-old was sent between June 27 and August 27, 2024, with the video found by police when they examined Saily's phone, after arresting him. Last month, Saily pleaded guilty to charges related to the 13-year-old, including grooming, sexual connection with a young person, sexual violation, and possessing objectionable material. He had added that girl on Snapchat in May 2024, claiming he was only 16. He groomed her over a month and encouraged her to send him sexually explicit photographs. They met at night in June 2024, and he drove her to several private locations where he sexually violated her, at times as she cried in pain. She repeatedly told him to stop, but he told her to shut up. It was her first experience of sexual intercourse. This offending was only detected after police pulled the pair over during a routine police stop and became suspicious about their age gap. When being dealt with by police at the traffic stop, the defendant indicated he was not aware of the girl's age and tried to stop her from speaking to the attending officers. Because of the significant age difference between the complainant and the defendant, she was taken to her home and spoken to alongside her mother. That traffic stop happened on Saturday, August 24, just before Saily's Tauranga trial began on August 26. During the Tauranga trial, the court heard how the girl didn't know Saily's proper name, and he didn't use it on any of his social media profiles. They'd met up at Mount Maunganui's Bayfair mall, and then went for a walk to the nearby Arataki Community Centre. There, the girl said she had been forced to perform sexual acts after Saily threatened her with a knife. He then went on to rape and violate her. Saily claimed it had been consensual, but the Crown said this was "utterly fanciful", particularly given the "naive" girl had no sexual experience and it was the first time she'd met up with a boy alone. Saily is currently serving a sentence of nine years and two months' imprisonment for the Tauranga attack, and will be sentenced for the offending against the 13-year-old and 11-year-old in December. If it is an emergency and you feel like you or someone else is at risk, call 111. This story first appeared in the New Zealand Herald .
RNZ News
37 minutes ago
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Suitcase murders-accused Hakyung Lee makes rare appearance in court
Hakyung Lee in 2022. Photo: RNZ / Nick Monro A woman accused of murdering her two children and hiding their bodies in suitcases has made a rare in-person court appearance as her trial date nears. Hakyung Lee's hair covered her eyes and she wore a dark grey hoodie over a grey T-shirt when she appeared for criminal callover at the High Court in Auckland on Wednesday morning. The appearance was for a progress update ahead of her trial, which is now set to begin on 8 September. Lee's case has moved slowly since the bodies of Yuna Jo and Minu Jo were found in suitcases in Auckland in 2022 . Hakyung Lee was extradited from South Korea to New Zealand that same year, with her trial originally set for April of last year. Justice Downs thanked Lee for appearing in person. "I know the court is not your favourite place," he said. He told Lee her lawyers were working hard to make sure her trial would go ahead without another delay. "I am relieved to tell you progress is being made," he said. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
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Federated Farmers' comments on police 'not helpful', district commander says
District Commander Superintendent Tony Hill. Photo: RNZ / Simon Rogers Police are accusing Federated Farmers of scaremongering over a proposed restructure in rural Canterbury. But the farming lobby group is furious about a proposal it says will see local police services cut in favour of hubs in Rangiora and Rolleston. North Canterbury Federated Farmers' president Bex Green told Morning Report on Tuesday she understood the proposal would mean some areas would have reduced policing and others would see the local rural police officers changing to rural liaison officers working office hours, while Arthur's Pass and Culverden would have no local officers at all. But District Commander Superintendent Tony Hill told Morning Report the restructure, which had been 18 months in the making, only proposed closing the sole-charge station at Arthur's Pass. Other stations would remain open but with a different model of policing that would reflect current demand, he said. Hill said the proposal was a "refocusing" rather than a reduction in sworn officers. Some roles would be disestablished, but those officers would be encouraged to apply for other roles. "What we're proposing is that if their current role is a rural role... we are proposing standing up road policing roles in the area for that very purpose. "We know for places like Culverden almost two-thirds of their calls for service are actually about policing on the roads. "Hurunui's a classic example. Seven people died on the roads there last year - that's a horrific number and we want to see some change in it." A new rural liaison officer role would be created. Hill said he believed it was a model that would help the police "manage demand effectively into the future". "Actually, I think it probably reflects what the community's needs are." Federated Farmers should have come to the police to confirm the details of the proposal, Hill said. "What's not helpful is they haven't come to us for opinion before they've jumped into the media and shared their views on it. "We encourage anyone who would like to know more about this to come directly to us instead of drumming up particularly scaremongering in the community." Federated Farmers is furious about a proposal it says will see local police services cut. Photo: RNZ / Alexander Robertson But Green said Federated Farmers was disappointed to have learnt of the changes through the media, and would have liked to see community consultation. "We want some answers, we want to know and understand how [the proposal] is going to work." She said most of the communities in the area would have reduced policing under the proposal. "The police live in our community, they know the people and understand the community. A lot of what they do here is crime prevention and proactiveness - that is really huge for our community, if we lose that, it is going to be really difficult." Green said the nearest police stations to Culverden were in Hanmer Springs and Waikari, 30 minutes' drive from Culverden. "Should one of them be on leave or attending another call, we are left with one police officer." To bring someone back up from Rangiora would take more than an hour. "In an emergency, every second counts - if you need help, you need it now, not an hour later." She said the cuts hurt given the government's promise of more frontline police . "I think that is probably happening in the cities, but taking away the rural presence… is not the way to go about it." Public meetings would be held at the Amuri Area School Gym, Culverden and the Leeston Rugby Club Hall at 6pm on Wednesday night. In a statement, Hill said the district restructure proposal went out to all Canterbury staff for feedback last week, with consultation closing next week. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
