Richard Joseph Wekking, 67, refused to appear before the Parole Board at a scheduled hearing last month, shunned his Corrections case manager and has declined to do any rehabilitation.
"[He] indicated he will go to the end of his sentence," panel convener Serina Bailey said.
Wekking was found guilty of 37 sex charges — against three girls under the age of 12 in the 1980s and ’90s — after a Dunedin District Court trial.
"Your offending was more than depraved, it was more than perverted — it was violent," Judge Michael Crosbie said at sentencing in 2021.
"The effect was to rob all three young women of their childhood, particularly of their innocence."
Wekking invented a series of games to disguise his sex crimes and victims told the court how he regularly exposed them to pornography to the point where it was normalised.
He maintained his innocence through the trial to sentencing and continued that stance while behind bars, the Parole Board heard.
Wekking was advised to undertake specialist sex offender treatment as well as an alcohol and drug course, to no avail.
"Presently, it appears Mr Wekking is not willing to engage with his programmes," Ms Bailey said.
If that stance persisted, there were deniers’ courses that were also available to the Rolleston Prison inmate, she said.
Wekking’s victims gave powerful victim-impact statements at the 2021 hearing, detailing the extreme trauma they had suffered.
"Other children were afraid of monsters and things that go bump in the night, but I had bigger things to be afraid of. My monsters were everyday people who wore everyday clothes," one said.
"No-one has made me feel as small as you did; no-one has made me feel as cursed as you have."
The Parole Board scheduled his next hearing for August 2026.
"The board encourages Mr Wekking during this time to reconsider his stance and to engage with the prison services," Ms Bailey said.
Wekking’s sentence expires in 2032.
