A 19-year-old was sentenced on August 24 to four and a half-years imprisonment for serious sexual offences, including sodomy and serious indecent assault as well as housebreaking. The Lord Chief Justice directed the identity of the two victims must not be published in Tonga.
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Wednesday 25 August 2021
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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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.”
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Wednesday 11 November 2020
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 73-year-old man was sentenced to four and a half-years imprisonment for seven counts of indecent assaults on a teenager.
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Monday 5 August 2019
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 20-year-old man has been arrested and charged with sexual assault of a four-year old girl in Tongatapu on Friday, August 2.
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Thursday 7 March 2019
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga Police are investigating separate cases of sexual assault of two young girls reported last week in Nuku'alofa
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Monday 25 September 2017
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 21 year-old man has been arrested in relation to kidnapping and sexually assaulting a six year-old girl last weekend in Tongatapu.
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Friday 4 August 2017
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 17-year-old boy remains in police custody after he was charged for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in Fahefa.
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Thursday 25 May 2017
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Petuliki Lave (22) was sentenced to eight years imprisonment after pleading guilty to the serious offence of carnal knowledge of a child under the age of 12.
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Thursday 10 March 2016
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A primary school teacher who admitted five counts of indecent assault on boys under the age of 12, in humiliating assaults and violations using bananas, was sentenced to a total of one year and 10 months in jail, with one year suspended.
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