{"id":49480,"date":"2022-10-20T12:45:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T03:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/20\/nz-court-rejects-appeal-against-9-month-home-detention-sentence-for-five-serious-sexual-assaults"},"modified":"2022-10-20T12:45:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T03:45:19","slug":"nz-court-rejects-appeal-against-9-month-home-detention-sentence-for-five-serious-sexual-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49480","title":{"rendered":"NZ court rejects appeal against 9-month home detention sentence for five serious sexual assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jayden Meyer\u2019s sentence was labelled \u2018manifestly inadequate\u2019 after he was found guilty of five serious sexual assaults committed when he was 16<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand high court has rejected the Crown\u2019s appeal against a community sentence for a convicted teenage rapist \u2013 despite calling the sentence \u201cmanifestly inadequate\u201d \u2013 sparking fresh concerns for victims of sexual violence.<\/p>\n<p>Jayden Meyer, 18, was found guilty in the youth court of four counts of rape and one of sexual assault committed when he was 16, against five victims, all aged 15. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and maintained that the activity had been consensual.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/20\/nz-court-rejects-appeal-against-9-month-home-detention-sentence-for-five-serious-sexual-assaults\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jayden Meyer\u2019s sentence was labelled \u2018manifestly inadequate\u2019 after he was found guilty of five serious sexual assaults committed when he was 16A New Zealand high court has rejected the Crown\u2019s appeal against a community sentence for a convicted teenage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49481,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49480\/revisions\/49481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}