Inducing a woman to indulge in sexual acts with him on the pretext he would die from toxic poisoning if she didn't has cost a Rotorua man his liberty for more than three years.
The 24-year-old, who can't be named for legal reasons, was sentenced in the Rotorua District Court today by Judge Maree MacKenzie to three years two months in prison on one charge of sexual connection induced by a threat and another of assaulting the same woman, his former partner.
She told the defendant he had only himself to blame that he could no longer see his child from his relationship with his victim.
The summary of facts outlined how, hiding behind a pseudonym, the man had emailed his former partner claiming he had been beaten up and forced to drink a vial of toxin.
Because there was no known antidote, the only way he was able to purge himself was by sweating it out within 48 hours. To do this he had to have oral sex four times and three rounds of intercourse with the woman.