Taranaki Motel Resident With 82 Previous Convictions Sexually Assaults Manager Calling it Just ‘fun and games’
January 9, 2023
PHOTO: Tara Shaskey
A woman trying to keep the peace at a motel she managed was subjected to repeated unwanted sexual contact from a drunk resident who continued to grab her private parts as she pushed him away and told him “no”.
The offender, Jackson Antoni Ratima, later laughed when police spoke to him about the sex crimes and told a probation officer it was just “fun and games”.
When jailing Ratima on Monday for the offending, Judge Gregory Hikaka told the New Plymouth District Court that the incident had left the woman “very distressed” and Ratima banned from the accommodation facility.
The 40-year-old Taranaki man had been living at the New Plymouth motel, which cannot be named in order to protect the manager’s identity, at the time of the July 20, 2022, assaults.
That day, Ratima plied himself with booze - despite his prison release conditions at the time stipulating he was not to drink alcohol - and began to disrupt other motel residents.