A Havelock North artist has been sentenced to 100 hours of community work after taking secret, topless photographs of his mother-in-law that he later claimed were freehand drawings.
Aaron John Jenkins, 28, appeared in the Hastings District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to two charges of committing an indecent act with intent to insult and a third of making an intimate visual recording last month.
The artist secretly took topless photographs of his mother-in-law without her knowledge or consent while she was living with him to support his then-pregnant wife.
The images came to light when Jenkins' marriage deteriorated and he moved out of the family home, leaving photocopies of the images among possessions he left behind.
He also repeatedly played pornographic movies in front of his mother and sister-in-law while giving them lifts in his car.