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Otago Daily Times
7 days ago
- Otago Daily Times
Snapchat predator admits further offending while on bail
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. Yesterday 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. They 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'. 'Too young to have a boyfriend' says victim 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 state 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. Offending discovered at 'routine traffic stop' 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. Sex with 'naive' 16-year-old at knife-point 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. SEXUAL HARMWhere to get help:If it's an emergency and you feel that you or someone else is at risk, call you've ever experienced sexual assault or abuse and need to talk to someone, contact Safe to Talk confidentially, any time 24/7:• Call 0800 044 334• Text 4334 • Email support@ • For more info or to web chat visit contact your local police station - click here for a list. If you have been sexually assaulted, remember it's not your fault.
RNZ News
7 days ago
- RNZ News
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 .
NZ Herald
14-07-2025
- NZ Herald
Bay of Plenty Snapchat predator Raveen Saily reoffended while on bail awaiting trial
He first groomed the girl on the social media app Snapchat before arranging to meet her at Bayfair in October 2021. They walked to Arataki Skatepark, where he pulled her inside the changing rooms and told her he had a knife before raping and sexually assaulting her. It was her first sexual encounter. The Arataki Community Centre public changing rooms where a 16-year-old was raped by Raveen Saily. Photo / Hannah Bartlett Police tracked him down in April 2022 and his case was tried in the Tauranga District Court in August last year. It was revealed at trial that Saily used the alias 'John' and had several different Snapchat accounts. Three months before standing trial, Saily offended again, this time in Rotorua. 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. He added the Rotorua 13-year-old on Snapchat in May, 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 and he drove her to several private locations where he raped and 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. He pleaded guilty last week to charges including grooming for sexual conduct with a young person, sexual connection with a young person, sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection and possessing objectionable material. He is due to be sentenced in December. Raveen Saily used Snapchat to groom teen girls. Photo / Getty Images Sexual abuse victims advocate Louise Nicholas said the Rotorua offending wouldn't have happened if there hadn't been such a long delay at the Tauranga District Court. She also called for more electronically monitored bail for sexual offenders. 'I see it time and time again.' Speaking generally, she said having sexual abuse trials as 'reserves' for court scheduling also added to the stress for victims and their families as those dates weren't guaranteed. A reserve trial only starts if the fixed trials don't go ahead. Louise Nicholas is an advocate for victims. Photo / Michael Craig 'They get geared up emotionally to give evidence only to be told on the day it's not going ahead.' She said given the long waits for trials, defendants were often granted bail, but she said more consideration needed to be given for serious sexual offenders to be in custody or on electronically monitored (EM) bail – whereby Community Corrections tracks defendants with GPS. Nicholas said overnight curfews were monitored by police, who didn't have time to regularly check. 'Yes defendants are innocent until proven guilty, I get that, but if there is enough evidence to bring charges we need to keep the community safe by considering EM bail more often.' The Rotorua and Tauranga courthouses. Photo / NZME Ministry of Justice courts and tribunals regional service delivery acting group manager Eve Padgett said the average wait time until the end of a category three case (those with maximum jail terms of two or more years) was 711 days in the Rotorua District Court and 777 in the Tauranga District Court. The national average is 706 days. She said delays were caused by an increase in serious and complex cases, people pleading guilty later in the process, more people electing jury trials over judge-alone trials, more adjournments because of parties not being prepared and court staffing pressures. She said several initiatives were under way to improve the wait times. These included the Chief District Court Judge issuing a new category-based timeliness threshold. For category three cases, 90% of criminal cases should be disposed of within 15 months (about 456 days). The ministry was prioritising rostering and scheduling to target judicial and justice sector resources at district courts with the largest backlog of cases. Judicial resources and courtrooms were being reprioritised to address the backlog of cases. Where to get 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 Safe to Talk confidentially, any time 24/7: Call 0800 044 334 Text 4334 Email support@ For more info or to web chat visit Alternatively, contact your local police station – click here for a list. Kelly Makiha is a senior journalist who has reported for the Rotorua Daily Post for more than 25 years, covering mainly police, court, human interest and social issues.
NZ Herald
07-07-2025
- NZ Herald
Rotorua Snapchat rapist: Raveen Saily admits grooming and sex offences against 13-year-old
A 13-year-old Rotorua girl befriended by a man claiming to be 16 on Snapchat was sexually groomed and raped by him. Details of the case involving offender Raveen Saily, 23, can now be revealed after he
