Christiaan Paul Veldwijk, 44, was sentenced to home detention for two indecent assault charges in late 2019 when he appeared in the Invercargill District Court on Thursday. A man convicted of indecent assault has shown a pattern of behaviour which is escalating, a judge says. Judge Alison McLeod, referring to a pre-sentence report about Veldwijk, said his offending was related to sexual arousal and it appeared to be escalating given “two relevant prior convictions of indecent acts”, in 2010 and 2016. “There’s a real concern about this,” the judge said. When deciding Veldwijk’s sentence, the judge chose home detention over jail because it would put him in the position to get the intervention he needed, she said.

Source: Stuff July 08, 2021 03:56 UTC