found guilty by a jury<\/a> last year of two charges of slavery, two counts of rape and a string of other sexual assaults.<\/p>\n![\"Moeaia](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JTBSSA_0Z9A3452_2_jpg.jpeg\")
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Photo: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi\n<\/p>\n
In a victim statement, one of the complainants said her youthful happiness, and her voice, have been taken from her.<\/p>\n
Justice Michele Wilkinson-Smith said Tuai felt entitled to the money the two earned, controlling their finances to fund his lifestyle and threatening them with deportation.<\/p>\n
Investigation and prosecution numbers were hard to track down, but Tuai’s slave dealing convictions are believed to be the fifth in New Zealand history.<\/p>\n
More to come…<\/p>\n
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