which he had earlier pleaded guilty<\/a>.<\/p>\nPreventive detention, or a lengthy finite sentence?<\/p>\n
The Crown sought a sentence of preventive detention, submitting that Saily showed a pattern of sustained offending that had caused serious harm to his victims, and two psychological report writers had found him to be at a high risk of reoffending.<\/p>\n
Reilly said he seemed to have no remorse, nor any inclination to take part in rehabilitation.<\/p>\n
While acknowledging Saily hadn\u2019t yet had an opportunity to have treatment, Reilly said there were concerns he wouldn\u2019t \u201cgenuinely engage\u201d in that process.<\/p>\n
\u201cParticularly when you look at his capacity for duplicitousness,\u201d Reilly said, referring to a comment from a report writer.<\/p>\n
While he was only in his 20s, it wasn\u2019t the typical impulsive offending of youth.<\/p>\n
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Raveen Saily appeared in the Rotorua District Court for sentencing, before it was transferred to the High Court. Photo \/ Kelly Makiha<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s predatory, it\u2019s grooming, it\u2019s sustained over three victims,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving the order of preventive detention would mean that there would be more incentive to actually engage meaningfully in any treatment before being released.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Saily\u2019s lawyer Bill Nabney said his client had changed his position and now accepted he needed treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe, to be quite frank, had a fairly naive attitude, shall we say, towards the severity of his offending,\u201d Nabney said.<\/p>\n
In talking about the significant periods of imprisonment, there had \u201cfinally\u201d been a recognition from Saily that he required treatment.<\/p>\n
Nabney said the risk factors could still be addressed by a lengthy finite sentence, with treatment while in prison, and where he would still have to convince the Parole Board he had been rehabilitated before being granted parole.<\/p>\n
He used \u2018age and power to manipulate\u2019 young victims<\/p>\n
In sentencing Saily, Justice Gardiner first assessed the seriousness of the offending itself.<\/p>\n
Referring to the 13-year-old, Justice Gardiner said Saily had \u201cforced her to take part in demeaning and degrading acts\u201d, taking video recordings and photographs of her in those acts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI consider it relevant and aggravating the manner in which your offending has been driven by power and coercion and a desire to demean and degrade your victim.\u201d<\/p>\n
He had used his \u201cage and power to manipulate the victim\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cYour actions during the course of offending indicated that you derived pleasure from this aspect of the offending.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saily added the 13-year-old girl on Snapchat in May 2024, claiming he was 16. He groomed her over a month and encouraged her to send him sexually explicit photographs. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
She repeatedly told him to stop, but he told her to shut up. <\/p>\n
\u2018You groomed her persistently over months\u2019 <\/p>\n
Justice Gardiner found the offending against the 11-year-old was aggravated by the fact the girl was \u201cvery young\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew she was that young, she told you. You groomed her persistently over months,\u201d the judge said. <\/p>\n
Saily never met the 11-year-old victim in person; they lived in different cities and communicated on Snapchat.<\/p>\n
The 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.<\/p>\n
However, Saily continued to pressure her until she agreed and their conversations continued over text and Snapchat, and with audio and video calls.<\/p>\n
She became \u201cincreasingly emotionally dependent\u201d on Saily, believing she was in a relationship with him.<\/p>\n
Saily told the 11-year-old he loved her, while encouraging her to send him sexually explicit images.<\/p>\n
He would ask her to \u201cget naked\u201d and tell her about his sexual preferences, describing himself as \u201cfreaky\u201d.<\/p>\n
He told her she would be a \u201cgood SCAT girl\u201d, which describes sexual arousal from faecal matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour offending escalated to requiring her to perform demeaning sexual acts for you and sending her images of another victim performing a degrading sexual act,\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n
It had caused distress and pain to the girl and her family.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou stole the victim\u2019s innocence at 11 years old. She has been left psychologically damaged by your actions, unable to attend school, and requiring clinical treatment,\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n
Violent videos, extreme explicit material and a \u2018distorted understanding of healthy sexual relationships\u2019<\/p>\n
After looking at the offending itself, the judge turned her mind to the ongoing risk Saily posed to the community to consider if a sentence of preventive detention was appropriate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a pattern of grooming young women online for sexual purposes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile you appear to have met the [16-year-old] victim through a friend, you then engage with her online, providing a false name. As your offending progressed, you engaged with younger victims, whom you\u2019ve groomed on social media. You have admitted to numerous online relationships with young girls beyond the victims.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the cases of the 16-year-old raped by Saily and the 13-year-old, he had met with them before \u201csexually violating them in violent and degrading ways\u201d. <\/p>\n
Justice Gardiner considered the psychological reports \u2013 Saily had a longstanding pattern of \u201ccompulsive pornography consumption\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou described a rabbit hole effect whereby you became increasingly drawn to extreme material, which led you towards paedophilia content, and eventually to the development of sexual interest in young women and girls,\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n
He\u2019d also consumed non-sexual violent content, such as beheadings.<\/p>\n
The ongoing exposure to increasingly extreme sexual material had \u201cdistorted [his] understanding of healthy relationships, consent and age-appropriate intimacy\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cYour sexual deviancy has contributed to associated health problems, including difficulty being sexually fulfilled by developmentally appropriate and healthy relationships,\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n
However, Justice Gardiner concluded that given Saily was still relatively young, there was an ability for him to engage in rehabilitative programmes that targeted things such as cognitive distortions, intimacy deficits, arousal management, victim empathy, safety planning and relapse prevention.<\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to [the psychologist] your deviant sexual predispositions are likely to be, at least in part, borne out of childhood trauma and compulsive consumption of increasingly extreme pornography from late childhood. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou may be able to address these contributing causes through rehabilitation.\u201d<\/p>\n
He could also be subject to an extended supervision order, and was not guaranteed parole as soon as he became eligible.<\/p>\n
She decided a finite sentence would be sufficient to deter and denounce the offending, and to protect the community.<\/p>\n
In terms of what that sentence would be, the judge had to look not just at the latest offending but the sentence he was already serving.<\/p>\n
It was agreed by the Crown and defence that the sentences would be cumulative, not concurrent, so she had to apply totality.<\/p>\n
She adopted a starting point of 13 years and six months for the offending against the 11-year-old and 13-year-old, but adjusted the end sentence to eight years, to be served cumulatively with the nine-year, two-month sentence for the rape and violation of the 16-year-old.<\/p>\n
This meant that for all the offending, Saily is serving a sentence of 17 years and two months\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n
She also imposed a minimum period of imprisonment so that Saily would have to serve at least six and a half years before being eligible for parole.<\/p>\n
Hannah Bartlett is a Tauranga-based Open Justice reporter at NZME. She previously covered court and local government for the Nelson Mail, and before that was a radio reporter at Newstalk ZB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 11-year-old\u2019s mother\u2019s victim impact statement, read by Crown prosecutor Erin Reilly, explained that at the time, her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9092,17704,1561,868,181,8912,2082,13838,48958,42,43,1118,17699,28703,1562,25595,226466,226467,5161,17703,5317,427,1961,40,38,41,39,1455,102,4741],"class_list":["post-443464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-against","tag-assault","tag-bay","tag-deals","tag-details","tag-distressing","tag-for","tag-girls","tag-grooming","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-of","tag-offender","tag-offending","tag-plenty","tag-rapist","tag-raveen","tag-saily","tag-sentenced","tag-sexual","tag-snapchat","tag-story","tag-this","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-warning","tag-with","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443464","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=443464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}