Snapchat predator case moves to High Court – The Bay’s News First – SunLive

Warning: This story deals with details of sexual assault against young people, and may be distressing. A predator who preyed on young girls he met on Snapchat has been told his sexual offending is so serious, he needs to be sentenced in the High Court. Raveen Saily, 24, from Tauranga, appeared in the Rotorua District Court today for what was supposed to be his sentencing for violent sexual offending against two different young girls – a 13-year-old from Rotorua and an 11-year-old from Auckland. He is already serving a lengthy jail term for raping a 16-year-old from Tauranga he met on Snapchat. Judge Andree Wiltens told Crown prosecutor Anna McConachy and Saily’s lawyer Bill Nabney that preventive detention should be considered. He said he had no jurisdiction to give such a sentence so sentencing needed to be adjourned and the case elevated to the High Court. “You have very serious offending already to your name and there are now further charges that need to be dealt with by way of sentence,” Judge Wiltens said to Saily. “They are so serious that I consider the appropriate sentence for you is preventive detention.” Preventive detention is an indeterminate prison sentence. Prisoners can be released
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