Northland police have welcomed a prison term handed down to a man in Kaikohe for ‘abhorrent’ historical sex offences against children.
Detective Senior Sergeant Geoff McCarthy, of Northland CIB, was commenting after the sentencing on Thursday of William Richard Cash for historical sexual offending.
The 77-year-old cash was sentenced to eight and a half years’ imprisonment in the Kaikohe District Court this morning by Judge Brandt Shortland for a raft of child sex offences.
The charges Cash was sentenced on include indecent assault and unlawful sexual connection, against girls aged under 12 and girls aged 12-16.
First and foremost, police acknowledge the victims in this matter and the ordeal they have been through, McCarthy said.