An elderly, ailing paedophile who targeted boys in the 1970s and early ’80s – abusing his roles as a Marist Brother and boarding school teacher – was wheeled back into an Auckland courtroom yesterday as he was stared down by yet another victim.
Charles Robert Afeaki, who turns 83 next month, has been in and out of prison since the mid-1990s, when he was first prosecuted for the historical sexual abuse. This week’s sentencing marks his 40th criminal conviction for child sexual abuse.
He returned to prison last August, ordered to serve a 25-month term after admitting to the abuse of two more boys at schools in Auckland and Invercargill during the same period.
Auckland District Court Judge Kirsten Lummis added two months to that sentence yesterday for the abuse of another victim who recently came forward: a now 61-year-old who was 12 and attending Invercargill’s Marist Brothers Primary School when the offending happened in 1975.
It marked Afeaki’s fourth sentencing over the past 30 years and his eighth confirmed victim. But it might not be his last.
It can now be reported that Afeaki is also awaiting a judge-alone trial in Whanganui District Court on charges filed in March about allegations he repeatedly abused an 11-year-old boy in 1977.
NZ Herald
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