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Waikato man Andrew Alan Williams who was due to stand trial to defend a raft of charges relating to grooming, sexually assaulting and raping young girls as young as 3 and recording some of the acts has pleaded guilty.
His partner equestrian Laken Maree Rose, 31, is defending the majority of charges she faces in relation to grooming the young girls for sex, then raping and indecently assaulting their alleged victims and recording the acts.
Just prior to the trial starting this morning Williams, 54, pleaded guilty to 56 charges in the Hamilton High Court.
Rose pleaded guilty to four charges for inducing an indecent act on a young person in the Waikato between January 2014 to December 2015.
She is defending 61 charges before a judge this afternoon.