{"id":258680,"date":"2026-01-30T03:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258680\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T03:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:25:07","slug":"mongrel-mob-member-jailed-for-12-years-for-offending-against-young-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258680\/","title":{"rendered":"Mongrel Mob member jailed for 12 years for offending against young girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lou Daniel Harmer was sentenced in Napier District Court for sexual offending against multiple young girls. Photo \/ Warren Buckland\n<\/p>\n

A patched Mongrel Mob member in Hawke\u2019s Bay has been jailed for significant sexual offending against multiple young women.<\/p>\n

\n Lou Daniel Harmer was sentenced in Napier District Court today to 12 years and six months in prison after being found guilty on 14 counts of charges relating to sexual offending
\n against multiple young girls.\n <\/p>\n

Detective Kelsey Smith said police were pleased to see justice done for his victims, who had the bravery to come forward and tell their stories.<\/p>\n

\u201cStanding up to an abuser to relate their account requires a huge amount of courage,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope that they have been able to find some sense of healing through this process and can take reassurance from the knowledge that their actions and bravery may have protected other young people from suffering how they did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawkes Bay Today 30 Jan, 2026 01:46 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17525,9092,1558,2082,13838,1976,42,14641,1329,4281,4280,2510,43,28703,29055,17703,5257,40,38,41,39,2248,1530,4741],"class_list":["post-258680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-17525","tag-against","tag-been","tag-for","tag-girls","tag-hawkes","tag-headlines","tag-jailed","tag-member","tag-mob","tag-mongrel","tag-multiple","tag-news","tag-offending","tag-patched","tag-sexual","tag-significant","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-women","tag-years","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258680","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=258680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}