A sports trainer has been remanded in custody for sentence after a Christchurch District Court jury found him guilty of three sex offences against an intellectually impaired girl.
Judge Michael Crosbie remanded Malcolm John Platt, 47, for a probation report and sentence on May 5 on a charge of raping a 16-year-old girl, and two further charges of sexually violating her, the Chrsitchurch Court News website reported.
Crown prosecutor Ruth Thomas told the court that when Platt spoke to police he denied sexual contact with the girl but DNA from semen samples taken from her clothing, a towel, and a chair, linked him strongly to her account of what happened.
She said the girl had some mild impairments and functioned intellectually at about five years less than her age.
Defence counsel Paul Johnson acknowledged that Platt had not told the truth to police when he said there was no sexual contact between him and the girl.
"He did not rape the complainant. No penetration took place. While he had some sexual contact, it was consensual and he believed on reasonable grounds it was consensual," he said.
