NZ Justice: Home D for Four Time Rapist
September 6, 2022
A teenager convicted of raping four girls under the age of 16 has been sentenced to nine months’ home detention - despite a judge acknowledging the consequence would ordinarily be a prison sentence of “many years”.
Jayden Desmond Meyer, now 18, was charged after multiple police complaints by young women in the Bay of Plenty who alleged sexual violence across 2020 and 2021.
An investigation followed, resulting in 10 charges including four of rape, four of sexual violation, and two of doing an indecent act. There were five young female victims, four of whom were raped and one who was sexually violated.
According to district court documents obtained by Open Justice, all five victims were aged 15 at the time of the attacks. Meyer was 16.