Curtis Marc James Everett, 28, was declined early release following a hearing at the Otago Corrections Facility last month.
He was sentenced to five years and eight months’ imprisonment when he appeared in the Dunedin District Court in 2023.
Everett first came to police attention in 2019 after a woman complained he had violated her after she had taken sleeping pills.
When she regained consciousness, Everett feigned confusion and police later determined there was not enough evidence to prosecute.
They reversed that decision, though, in 2022 when a second woman complained of a sex attack.
The court heard Everett had been socialising at the victim’s home when she woke to him violating her.
She told him to stop several times and yelled in pain as the attack continued.
Once it was over, she immediately called out for help.
The next day, Everett sent her a series of messages on social media, one of which said: "Next time I do something like that stop me an not let me continue cause I’m not one to rape girls [sic]".
That comment was contradicted by a psychologist who compiled a report on the prisoner in October.
They put Everett at an average risk of similar future offences.
"Further sexual offending would more likely occur in circumstances where he is intoxicated and has an opportunity to act on sexual needs/impulses, for example access to a victim who trusts him and the victim may well be asleep or incapacitated from medication or alcohol," the clinician wrote.
The psychologist also noted that Everett might attempt to rectify the situation afterwards in an attempt to avoid culpability and might not consider himself to have acted inappropriately, choosing to believe that the activity was actually consensual.
The Parole Board heard the inmate had no suitable accommodation lined up and his release planning was in its early stages.
As a result, panel convener Judge Jane Lovell-Smith determined his risk was undue.
Everett will next see the board in June. His sentence will expire in June 2028.
