{"id":141799,"date":"2021-10-14T23:53:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T23:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=141799"},"modified":"2021-10-14T23:53:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T23:53:04","slug":"repeat-child-sex-offender-graeme-purvis-jailed-again-after-sending-explicit-messages-to-undercover-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/repeat-child-sex-offender-graeme-purvis-jailed-again-after-sending-explicit-messages-to-undercover-cop\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeat child sex offender Graeme Purvis jailed again after sending explicit messages to undercover cop"},"content":{"rendered":"
A repeat child sex offender who sent explicit messages to a police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl and been jailed for 18 months.<\/p>\n
Details of how Graeme Murray Purvis, 57, who has a long criminal history of child sex offending, was caught have been revealed at Christchurch District Court where he was sentenced today.<\/p>\n
Purvis set up an account with online social network Chatiw in June this year and contacted a 13-year-old girl, who was actually a detective with the Online Child Exploitation Across New Zealand Team.<\/p>\n
Using Google Hangouts, Purvis then sent the undercover officer a link where they exchanged more than 500 messages, many of them explicit.<\/p>\n
Purvis said he would be visiting Christchurch in late July and suggested the “girl” tell her caregiver she was having a sleepover with a school friend so that she could spend the night with him.<\/p>\n
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On the morning of the arranged meeting, he sent more sexually-explicit messages – including a photo and video – and tried to convince her to visit his place.<\/p>\n
They ended up meeting at a frozen yoghurt shop in Riccarton where Purvis was arrested.<\/p>\n
He ended up pleading guilty to charges of exposing a young person to indecent material, travelling to meet a young person after sexual grooming, and failing to comply with reporting obligations as a registered child sex offender.<\/p>\n
Today, defence counsel Joshua Grainger said Purvis wants to undergo treatment but he has been unsuitable because his risk level is so high.<\/p>\n
Judge Stephen O’Driscoll highlighted a pre-sentence report which said Purvis showed “little concern” for his offending and held “heavily-entrenched beliefs in his attitudes towards authority”.<\/p>\n
The judge told Purvis he hoped that he would do something to turn around his pattern of offending.<\/p>\n
He was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment with six months of standard and special release conditions, including a ban on using any electronic device which can access the internet without authorisation by probation officer and not to associate or contact anyone under 16.<\/p>\n
In 2016, Purvis was jailed for nearly three years after taking his brother’s laptop and downloading child pornography \u2013 just days after a sentence for similar offending ended.<\/p>\n
And in 2009 in Dunedin, he was jailed for objectionable publications and trying to sexually groom a 15-year-old girl.<\/p>\n