Emani Saumadu Naivanawalu, 27, saw the Parole Board last month but immediately accepted he would not be released because he had not yet undertaken specialist child-sex-offender treatment.
He was jailed for three years, eight months in the Dunedin District Court in October, 2022 after pleading guilty to two counts of doing an indecent act on a person aged under 16 and two of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection.
The two incidents came within days of each other.
In July last year, Naivanawalu was socialising with the victim’s parents at their home.
The boy woke at 6am to find the defendant groping him and was roused shortly after to find the man committing a more intrusive sexual assault.
When the victim asked what was going on, Naivanawalu told him to "shut up".
He gave the boy a bank card and told him he could use as much money as he wanted, but that he could not tell his parents what had happened.
On the next occasion, Naivanawalu gave the victim another bank card and stressed how he needed to keep their liaison a secret.
While the victim declined the man’s advances, he again woke to the violation.
When the ordeal was over, Naivanawalu said he was going to buy the victim a computer and a phone.
Corrections said the Rolleston Prison inmate behaved well, got on with others and followed the rules of the unit.
Naivanawalu was midway through a programme, which he said had taught him coping skills and new ways to deal with addiction.
He told the Parole Board he was motivated to undertake sex-offender therapy, but it would be some weeks before that began, panel convener Judge Anna Skellern said.
Naivanawalu’s immigration status was yet to be determined but the board advised him to consider release addresses away from Dunedin.
His next parole hearing will take place in November 2024.
