A Gloriavale man has been sentenced to 10 months’ home detention for assaulting children with weapons.<\/p>\n
The Christchurch District Court heard Vigilant Standtrue was convicted of seven charges of assault with a weapon, involving four victims, while supervising boys working at Gloriavale’s moss shed between 2001 and 2013.<\/p>\n
The victims were aged between 8 and 13 when Standtrue used sticks, plastic pipes, broom handles, a shovel and a pitchfork on them.<\/p>\n
Judge Tony Zohrab said the victims were truthful and credible, and the violence was never justified, regardless of the pressures of the work.<\/p>\n
The court also heard Standtrue had previously been sentenced in 2022 to a year of supervision for assaulting a child at Gloriavale.<\/p>\n
Standtrue then completed a year of supervision and undertook anger\u2011management programmes.<\/p>\n
Judge Zohrab said Standtrue had addressed his behaviour but warned a prison sentence would have been unavoidable if this offending had occurred later.<\/p>\n
He said while the offending was serious, home detention was the least restrictive sentence that still met the aims of justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Gloriavale man has been sentenced to 10 months’ home detention for assaulting children with weapons. The Christchurch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,67,42,43,40,38,41,39,1241],"class_list":["post-412411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-west-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412411","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=412411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}