Judge Rea, who had seen photos of the bruising and other injuries suffered by the girls in the last beating before they telephoned the police on December 18 last year, asked the prosecutor if the Crown accepted that the submissions made by defence counsel Phillip Ross represented what was in the document.
Mr Ross said it included provision for another member of the family and the church in which Mano is involved to visit the home two or three times a week to check the wellbeing of the girls.
He added the Ministry was satisfied and the girls had been living back at the address for some time.
Mano had pleaded guilty to three charges of injuring with intent to injure, two of assault with weapons, and two of assaulting females, some representing multiple offences.
The judge said the last incident happened despite the presence of the girls' grandmother and a 9-year-old cousin.
On that occasion, the family returned home from church and Mano demanded a cellphone from one of the girls because he believed she had been text-messaging from within the congregation.
Mano smashed the phone, demanded the girls change out of their church clothes and when they returned to him began "whipping" them with a length of rope.
He punched one twice in the face with a closed fist, before making the 9-year-old fetch a pair of scissors with which he cut the teen's hair while holding her on the ground.
She managed to kick his leg to get him off her, but he then took the scissors to the hair of the second teen, who managed to punch the scissors away, cutting her hand in the process.
Mano left the room and the girls fled to their bedroom from where they were able to make the call.
Admonishing Mano, the Judge said he had read a cultural report and it was difficult to see how Mano could see an "entitlement" in what he had done. He doubted it would be acceptable in any country.
The "sadness", Judge Rea said, was that in all other respects Mano was well respected and highly regarded.
-Hawke's Bay Today
