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An Auckland man who admitted 34 charges against six female victims has been jailed for 16 years for what a judge called "appalling" attacks that included three rapes.
Frankie Te Uira Edwards, 31, would serve at least 10 years after Judge Graham Lang imposed a minimum non-parole term, saying the Parole Board would need every year it could get to rehabilitate him before he could be released back into the community.
The charges followed a series of incidents in South Auckland over two months. They involved six victims, including one which the judge described as the worst, where Edwards kidnapped a 12-year-old girl and her 17-year-old sister in Manukau on June 1 and drove their car to an isolated spot.
He bound the hands of the younger girl and put her in the back seat of their car and raped her sister in the front seat.
The judge said all six victims were threatened and all feared they would die. "It was "extremely terrifying" for all of them.
"It is clear your offending has devalued the life of all of your victims and has had a massive impact on their families."
The judge told Edwards the offending had left long-lasting psychological damage and his victims were faced with the task of rebuilding their lives. Many found it difficult to go out in public at night and feared being in a car by themselves at night.
Edwards faced charges of rape, sexual violation, aggravated robbery, kidnapping, converting cars, indecent assault and threatening to do grievous bodily harm between April 9 and June 2.
In another attack on May 26, an 18-year-old girl was abducted after visiting a Mangere house and driven to a nearby industrial area where she was raped.
Police closed in on Edwards after he took the car of his last victim, whom he abducted on June 2 as she left Starship hospital. She was raped in a West Auckland carpark.
- NZPA
