Useless

Useless is what our current laws are when a creepy pedo is hiding himself behind name suppression laws.

Name suppression has been granted to a 33-year-old Napier man facing a raft of indecency charges after police found thousands of images of local children on his computer.

The unemployed Onekawa man appeared before Judge Geoff Rea in Napier District Court facing six charges of doing an indecent act.

His arrest came early this morning after police were tipped off by the public to a potential sighting of the man, who had been seen taking photos while driving past schools on a number of occasions in the past few weeks.

On both prior occasions he was reported to have been in a silver car.

Police found the man in his car at the Maadi Rd, Onekawa, shops shortly after 8.30am and had to use pepper spray after he became aggressive. A camera was found in his possession.

Detective Sergeant Tim Smith said police searched the man’s home shortly after his arrest and found around 1200 images of young girls and mothers walking babies on a USB stick as well as “objectionable” material on CDs and DVDs.

It appears the photos were taken locally as well as in Taupo said Mr Smith.

He asked for name suppression so he could inform his family and his soon to be ex-girlfriend.

I thought that was what newspapers were for?