Peter Melvin Bryant, 65, appeared in the Dunedin District Court yesterday where he had three years, seven months added, which pushes his next parole hearing out to at least 2026.
While he pleaded guilty to the 17 indecency charges, he told Probation it was a tactical decision, believing it gave him a better chance of release from prison.
Bryant claimed he was innocent of the crimes and blamed the teenage victim’s intoxication for the allegations.
The victim stood before the court yesterday, nearly 40 years on from the abuse, and called the man "a pervert of the worst kind".
It had been two years since he went to police and said it was "disgusting" how Bryant had dragged out proceedings.
"This court process keeps me in the moment, draws me back into the time constantly. [I’ve been] trying to move on and move past this but what you did is there in the forefront of my mind," he said.
"I’m socially bankrupt. The relationships I should’ve been building on are damaged because of what you did."
Byrant was introduced to the victim by a family friend in the 1980s when the teen had left school and was living in state care.
The defendant collected the boy and repeatedly sexually abused him in Gore and Dunedin, often using the lure of driving lessons to gain compliance.
It was not a one-off.
Bryant previously said he targeted young boys because he had been rejected by the gay community and "they were the only ones that would have me".
In 2003, he was sentenced to preventive detention, an indefinite prison term which allowed authorities to keep him behind bars for life if deemed necessary.
The High Court at Auckland imposed that penalty after a jury trial in which Bryant was convicted of a string of sex offences against 9-year-old boys.
In the preceding years, the defendant had also been convicted of possessing objectionable publications which comprised tens of thousands of images and films which depicted the abuse of children and bestiality.
The court heard he had been given a rehabilitative sentence on the first occasion but was kicked out because of a "lack of motivation . . . and non-attendance at treatment sessions".
Judge David Robinson said Bryant’s most recent Probation report was similarly damning and made for "disturbing and depressing reading".
He showed an ongoing sense of entitlement and was assessed as a high risk of future offending.
Bryant had been paroled in recent years but had twice been recalled to prison because of repeated indiscretions.
On the first day of one release, the sex offender bought an internet-capable device in direct contravention of his parole conditions.
On other occasions he went to the library without permission and he was finally imprisoned again in July last year after being found with 50 lewd images featuring naked young teens.
It represented, Judge Robinson said, a pattern of behaviour.
