A 36-year-old man was remanded in custody when he appeared on 47 charges involving sex, kidnapping, violence, and child neglect, dating back as far as 2000.
The charges include rape, assaults, and unlawful sexual connection on a girl aged 12 to 16, injuring with intent to injure, indecent assaults, neglecting a child, and unlawfully detaining a child.
Judge Tom Gilbert granted interim name suppression for the man, and remanded him to appear by video-link from the Christchurch Men’s Prison on July 7.
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