A Coromandel man who tried to import a “child-like sex doll” has been jailed for two and a half years. <\/p>\n
The 49-year-old was also sentenced for possessing child sexual abuse material and exploiting another person by secretly filming a sexual encounter. <\/p>\n
Customs first intercepted the sex doll falsely declared as a “mannequin model” in January 2025. <\/p>\n
Acting Chief Customs Officer, child exploitation and operations team, Shaun Martin said these kinds of items were “often linked to other forms of child exploitation offending”. <\/p>\n
During a raid of the man’s home, child sex abuse material was found on his devices. Martin said “computer-generated” content was found.<\/p>\n
“Whether AI-generated or created by other means, material of this nature contributes to the exploitation and sexualisation of children,” Martin said. <\/p>\n
Martin said the man also started exploiting another person by secretly filming a sexual encounter. <\/p>\n
“We are pleased we were able to intervene before further harm occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was charged with importation of an indecent or obscene article (child-like sex doll), possession of child sexual abuse material, and intentionally or recklessly making an intimate visual recording.<\/p>\n
At the Waihi District Court on Monday, the man was jailed for two and a half years. He was also registered as a child sex offender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Coromandel man who tried to import a “child-like sex doll” has been jailed for two and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[67,156,9001,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-580483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-entertainment","tag-hamilton-waikato","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580483","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=580483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}