H.B (a pseudonym) is serving nine months in prison after pleading guilty to two charges of serious indecent assault on a victim. Lord Chief Justice Bishop in his sentencing suppressed the identity of the parties, pursuant to section 119 of the Criminal Offences Act.
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Results for serious indecent assault
Thursday 23 January 2025
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga

Wednesday 10 May 2023
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 50-year-old man was sentenced to an aggregate 30-months imprisonment sentence on three charges of serious indecent assaults of a teenager on Tongatapu.

Thursday 12 May 2022
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 38-year-old man was sentenced to three-years imprisonment for two counts of serious indecent assault of a child under the age of 12 years.

Wednesday 27 April 2022
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 68-year-old man was sentenced to three-years imprisonment for three counts of serious indecent assault committed on a minor in 2021. The judge said young girls must be protected from sexual assaults and indecencies. He ordered that there should be no publication of any particulars relating to the victim, whereby her name or identity may be revealed.

Friday 4 March 2022
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 38-year-old man was acquitted on two charges of serious indecent assault on a teenager committed in Tongatapu in 2021. The judge did not believe the evidence of the complainant.

Thursday 16 December 2021
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A man was sentenced to 18-months imprisonment for two counts of serious indecent assault of a young girl in Tongatapu. Being the breadwinner for his family did not entitle the accused to a full suspension of an imprisonment sentence because of the seriousness of the sexual offence that he had committed, said the judge.

Monday 4 October 2021
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Leimoni Tito Siasau (49) who was sentenced to four-years imprisonment for serious indecent assault of a 33-year-old woman got his sentence reduced to two-years by the Appeal Court on October 1.

Monday 9 August 2021
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A man who raped his adult daughter has been sentenced to nine and a half-years imprisonment, at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court.

Thursday 1 July 2021
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Lemoto Lui (45) was sentenced today to four-years imprisonment for two counts of serious indecent assault committed on a young girl in 2020. The judge expressed his concern that in spite of deterrents such offences had not only continued “but they have risen as well.”

Wednesday 2 June 2021
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Limoni Tito Siasau (49) was sentenced to four-years imprisonment for serious indecent assaulting a 33-year-old female worker on a yacht in Vaipua, Vava'u in 2020. "You have caused great harm and damage to the good name, honour and dignity of the complainant as a woman," said the judge.

Friday 28 May 2021
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Faleu Tailoni Mafi was found guilty of serious housebreaking and serious indecent assault committed on a woman, who was asleep at her residence in Tokomololo.

Thursday 29 April 2021
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 46-year-old man was found guilty at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on two counts of serious indecent assaulting a teenager in 2020.

Friday 23 October 2020
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tongamoa Kakau (32) was sentenced to two-years six-months imprisonment for serious indecent assault committed on a 21-year-old woman in the early morning hours, at her home in Tongatapu. “ I have no doubt that this offending was caused by him drinking himself into a stupor,” said the judge.

Friday 18 September 2020
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tongamoa Kakau (32) was found guilty today of serious indecent assault committed on a 21-year-old woman in the early morning hours, at her home in Houmakelikao.

Tuesday 25 August 2020
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 47-year-old man was sentenced today at the Supreme Court to two-years imprisonment for two counts of serious indecent assault of a woman in Tongatapu.
