New Zealand sex attacker gets only one year!

For kidnapping and molesting a young girl!

A 12-year-old New Zealand girl outsmarted a man who kidnapped her for sex, a court has been told. The frightened girl got into a car with Anthony Treanor, 31, who had approached her repeatedly and tried to grab her as she walked to catch a bus home late on October 11 last year, Christchurch District Court was told.

Judge Murray Abbott said Treanor stopped at a park and tried to get the girl to drink alcohol, while rubbing her arm and upper leg. But unknown to Treanor the girl had guided him to park near where her aunt lived. Treanor had locked the car doors but the girl used a ruse to lean across him, flick the switch that unlocked the doors, and made a successful break for her aunt's house, the court heard.

"Were it not for the victim's presence of mind it may well be that what happened could have developed a far greater seriousness," Judge Abbott said.

Treanor, who had suffered a serious head injury in a car crash in his teenage years, pleaded guilty to kidnapping the girl, and doing an indecent act. He was jailed for one year and nine months, granted leave to apply for home detention, and ordered to undergo alcohol treatment and psychological counselling.

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