A 76-year-old man has admitted historical sexual offences involving a girl while she was a toddler and later a teenager.
He also pleaded guilty to sexually violating his dog during a two-year period.
Through his defence lawyer Jock Blathwayt, Gilbert James Wilson aka Jim Wilson, pleaded guilty to nine representative charges including indecencies with a girl under 12 years old and a dog when he appeared before Judge Tony Walsh in Masterton District Court yesterday.
He pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent assaulting a girl, two of unlawful sexual connection with a girl; all between January 1970 and June 1986. He also admitted to a charge of raping the same woman between 1986 and 1992; one of indecently assaulting a woman; one of sodomy; and one representative count of indecencies with a dog between January 1980 and June 1982.
The charges are all representative, meaning there was more than one incident involved with each charge.