A 25-year-old man from Nguna, Russel Tatangis, has been sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for unlawful sexual intercourse several times with a younger person.
Tatangis committed these offences with the young person who came to live with them as her school guardians. The penalty for unlawful sexual intercourse with a child between 13 and 15years is 15 years imprisonment.
There were no mitigating aspects to this offending. Having considered the aggravating factors, Judge G. A Andree Wiltens gave Tatangis a sentence start point of 6 years 6 months imprisonment.
The sentence was later reduced due his early guilty plea and personal factors.