After meeting her at the Armageddon Expo, while he was dressed as the Joker, the two went back to her house. Once there, he raped her twice. <\/p>\n
Nathaniel James Mahoney during his appearance via audio-visual link at a hearing in the High Court at Wellington to decide whether he should be subject to an Extended Supervision Order. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n
Mahoney choked the woman, and also bit her neck, shoulders, ribs and stomach, in some cases breaking the skin, as well as leaving scratches, bruising and abrasions over her body. <\/p>\n
At sentencing, the judge referred to the woman, who has a condition, as particularly vulnerable. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn my judgment, Mr Mahoney, it would have been reasonably clear to you that she had a degree of vulnerability to say the least.\u201d <\/p>\n
The decision also referred to a second sexual assault.<\/p>\n
That incident occurred at a residential lodge in 2012 after Mahoney followed a drunk and vomiting woman he knew back to her room and got into bed with her.<\/p>\n
Ignoring her pleas for him to leave and attempts to push him away, Mahoney touched her body and private parts. <\/p>\n
The following year, a third assault, involving a woman who was also known to Mahoney, began after he grabbed her by the hair. <\/p>\n
As she tried to get away, he grabbed her breast and pulled her towards him, causing considerable pain.<\/p>\n
A high risk of future sexual offending<\/p>\n
Corrections first applied for an ESO in 2024, before Mahoney\u2019s release from prison.<\/p>\n
Following his release in February, an interim supervision order was granted, requiring him to live at Te Korowai, a supported living facility on the grounds of Rimutaka Prison, offering 24\/7 oversight and support. <\/p>\n
Last month\u2019s hearing sought an ESO for the maximum 10-year period.<\/p>\n
Two of the three experts, who prepared reports for the hearing, assessed Mahoney\u2019s risk of reoffending as high or very high, noting that any reoffending would likely involve a vulnerable woman he knew. <\/p>\n
One of the reports also noted that Mahoney had a \u201ccomplex risk profile\u201d including mental health and personality factors, and neurodivergence. <\/p>\n
He is currently on medication for ADHD and bipolar disorder. <\/p>\n
Justice Radich\u2019s decision noted the three incidents showed a clear pattern of Mahoney forcing himself on young, sometimes vulnerable, women, irrespective of their objections. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe key factor on which the experts appear to agree is that the main contributor to Mr Mahoney\u2019s future risk of offending is his lack of understanding of consent, especially in the context of his sexual preference for BDSM; he prefers to be \u2018dominant\u2019 during intimacy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The judge noted there was a \u201cpervasive pattern\u201d of serious sexual offending, as well as a high risk of future sexual offending, thereby meeting the requirements for an ESO. <\/p>\n
Mahoney, who was in his 20s at the time of the offending, was now 36 and continued to maintain the sex was consensual. <\/p>\n
However, towards the end of his sentence he began treatment and has now undertaken a considerable number of sessions.<\/p>\n
\u201cConcerns remain about Mr Mahoney\u2019s ongoing denial of responsibility for the serious sexual offending he has committed. It is intended that his treatment will be long term,\u201d the decision stated. <\/p>\n
The decision went on to state that without significant treatment, Mahoney\u2019s pattern of serious sexual offending was sufficiently pervasive to serve as a predictor of his future conduct. <\/p>\n
Accordingly, Justice Radich imposed a five-year term for an ESO, with the Parole Board to review the conditions of Mahoney\u2019s order in the new year. <\/p>\n
Catherine Hutton is an Open Justice reporter, based in Wellington. She has worked as a journalist at the Waikato Times and RNZ. Most recently she was working as a media adviser at the Ministry of Justice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corrections lawyer Anselm Williams submitted that Mahoney\u2019s past conduct showed a \u201cpervasive pattern\u201d of behaviour. An ESO allowed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[115811,3595,1349,29888,42,2959,115810,49506,43,17699,29691,7680,21416,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-182545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-5year","tag-by","tag-court","tag-handed","tag-headlines","tag-high","tag-mahoney","tag-nathaniel","tag-news","tag-offender","tag-order","tag-sex","tag-supervision","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}