Duncan Garner has unleashed a fiery attack on New Zealand's judicial system for sentencing a sex offender to four and a half years in prison.
Auckland businessman and former North Shore community board chairman Martin Henry Lawes was sentenced for sexually exploiting children on Tuesday.
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The multi-millionaire paid money to access live child sex shows, which were filmed in the Philippines and streamed in New Zealand.
He pleaded guilty to three counts of entering into a dealing involving people under 18 for sex, one charge of being knowingly concerned in the importation of objectionable publications and one charge of possessing an objectionable publication.
Garner said the sentence handed down to Lawes was not nearly enough and called it an embarrassment.
"This entitled sense of creepiness, where he targeted these young kids in the Philippines and he had all these images of them," he said.
"Four years to me is not enough, he'll be out in two and a half years and it's people like this that hide in our community amongst us and they look the same as us.
"Four years, not enough. Completely not enough. What an embarrassment. "
He thanked the New Zealand police for investigating Lawes and charging him.
"Congratulations to the New Zealand police for doing the research, for doing the investigation, for bringing that man to the dock in the court," he said.
"Of course the court [sent] him away for a piddly four years."
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