Gloriavale man jailed for sexual assaults he told victim were educational: Stuff

Gloriavale man jailed for sexual assaults he told victim were educational: Stuff

By Jake Kenny | Stuff |

A Gloriavale man made young girls strip naked while he took photographs of them, claiming he was “teaching” one victim when he sexually assaulted her.

Peter Trust, a 51-year-old resident of the Gloriavale Christian Community and father of 11 children, also carried out “full-force beatings” on girls using a pipe and wooden spoon.

He sobbed in the dock as Judge Raoul Neave sentenced to him two years and two months imprisonment at the Christchurch District Court on Wednesday, after earlier pleading guilty to eight charges of doing an indecent act on a young person and three assaults with a weapon.

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