A teenager who set up a fictitious Facebook account to send repeated friend requests to another teen has been granted final name suppression.
His mother took the stand in Rotorua District Court this morning and told Judge Chris McGuire her son had told her he would commit suicide if hisname was published.
The court had previously been told the teenager also had a "stalker file" containing 21 sexually explicit stories he had written about himself, the victim and the victim's sister.
In December last year the teenager was sentenced to 100 hours of community work and 12 months of intensive supervision after he was found guilty of criminal harassment.
The teenager was also banned from owning a computer or accessing the internet for a year unless permitted to do so by his probation officer.
Judge McGuire said he would grant final name suppression, given what he had heard from the teenager's mother.
However, he warned the teenager that if there were any problems with him carrying out his sentence and he had to be brought back to court to be re-sentenced, name suppression could be reconsidered.
