10 months home detention for repeatedly violating an 11 year old

The Herald reports:

A Timaru teenager who admitted “depraved” and repeated sexual assaults on a young girl – the most “unusual” the sentencing judge has encountered in more than 20 years on the bench – has avoided prison.

Blake Ivan Miller, 19, pleaded guilty to “extremely serious” charges and was facing seven years behind bars.

But 75% of the sentence was cut due to his personal circumstances meaning he will serve just 10 months’ home detention.

Appalling. These crimes have a maximum sentence of 20 years and he got home detention for less than a year.

“I just want justice for our daughter and having him do 10 months’ home detention is not justice – just a nice long holiday for him.”

And a lifetime sentence for the victim.

Now the “good” news is that in future a sentencing discount of more than 40% won’t be available.

But the bad news is that the proposed new three strikes law wouldn’t have his offending even count as a strike, because he got a sentence of under two years.