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Warning: This article discusses sexual assault and abuse
Audible gasps could be heard by a victim's supporters as a judge indicated he wouldn't be sending a 37-year-old woman to jail for sexually assaulting a teenage boy.
Two supporters of the victim of Kate Rochelle Gough's crimes walked out of the courtroom in the Hamilton District Court on Friday as Judge Thomas Ingram said a home detention sentence would mean she would receive more rehabilitative and psychological help from outside a prison's four walls.
A key part of the reason for that sentence was suppressed by the judge, who explained to shocked whΔnau that he fully backed a report by psychiatrist Dr Shailesh Kumar, who found Gough to be a
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