Paul Thomas Neumann, 64, appeared in the Dunedin District Court yesterday and admitted breaching his sentence of community detention.
Neumann received the sentence earlier this year after he breached his extended supervision order (ESO) — an order that allows Corrections to monitor high-risk offenders.
In 2017, the ESO was imposed on Neumann for 10 years after he was jailed for seven sexual offences against girls under 12.
His community detention curfew hours are centred on periods when young people will likely be out.
He must be home from 7.30am to 10am and 1pm to 6pm on weekdays and from 9am to 6pm on weekends.
Yesterday, the court heard that on May 22 the defendant called a Probation officer and asked if he could deviate from the curfew to pick his car up from the mechanics.
He was told he could not as it was not an emergency and the car could be collected the following day.
Despite this, Neumann left his address for 13 minutes during his curfew hours to get his car.
He said his friend drove him straight there and back but acknowledged he could have walked the next day.
He had previously received a warning for leaving his curfew address 30 minutes early on another occasion.
At that time he said: "I had other things to do".
He will be sentenced for the breach in January.
The sentence came after Neumann breached his ESO in October last year by loitering near the Oval.
After he was caught in the area, which he was excluded from, Neumann said he did not think his Probation officer would be working.
"[I thought] I would get away with it as it was a Sunday," he said. "[I] forgot about the other [staff] in Wellington."
Neumann was previously convicted of breaching his ESO in 2018 after he entered an exclusion zone children frequented.
He received a nine-month deferred sentence for that offence.
Neumann’s ESO is due to expire in November 2027.
The order is only imposed on the most high-risk offenders once a prison sentence lapses and allows Corrections to closely monitor them in the community.
