After spending more than six years behind bars, Kyle Edward McGregor (25) will be freed on February 20 next year.
Yesterday in the High Court at Dunedin, Justice Rachel Dunningham imposed an extended supervision order (ESO) which would see him being monitored by Corrections for three years.
Such orders are only imposed when an offender at the end of their prison term remains a high risk of further sex crimes or very high risk of violence.
It allows Corrections to closely monitor the person while they remain subject to conditions similar to parole.
A report from a clinical psychologist said McGregor was "an acute risk of further sexual offending if unsupervised", particularly if given access to the internet or pre-pubescent girls.
In September 2017, the defendant was sentenced in the High Court at Blenheim on a range of sex charges, most of which related to acts he committed on hospital grounds against a 4-year-old girl.
After she rebuffed McGregor’s attempted sex attack, he led her to another isolated spot where he violated her.
The court heard he filmed the incident and took eight photos, which he later viewed for his own gratification.
During his interviews with one health assessor McGregor also disclosed offences against a baby and a 7-year-old girl, for which he had not been charged.
He had also been caught with online child abuse material.
While behind bars, he had undertaken the nine-month Kia Marama programme — a specialist course for child sex offenders.
The treating psychologist said McGregor was motivated to manage his sexual urges but tended to be less engaged in sessions that involved empathy or relationships with others.
He had learned skills to deal with those urges but continued to experience deviant sexual arousal to children, she said.
McGregor’s personality was "characterised by mistrust", the court heard, and his social detachment critical in allowing him to commit the violent sex acts. The psychologist said the man appeared to understand the gravity of his offending "on a simplistic level".
"While he has accepted increasing responsibility, his expressions of remorse remain intellectual and not considered of sufficient depth to be protective," she said.
Justice Dunningham said a three-year ESO was appropriately restrained given McGregor’s relative youth and the "tentative but positive progress" he had made through therapy.
