Urgent action required to deport serial sex offender

4 November 2015

Following the stalemate that the Wellington courts reached last Thursday in deciding what to do with a dangerous serial sex offender, the Sensible Sentencing Trust questions how he was let into New Zealand in the first instance, and how quickly will the government act to have him removed?

Mohyadin Mohamed Farah of Somalia entered New Zealand as a refugee in 2001. He had already spent time in a Kenyan Prison. He began offending here in 2002. His most recent crime was the rape and violent assault of a Woman in September 2013.

Farah's lawyer and Mother want him sent back to Somalia and a deportation order was made in 2008, but there was no government to issue him a passport

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/73475936/family-of-refugee-judged-a-danger-to-women-struggle-to-get-him-deported

Jayne Walker, Victim Advocate for the Sensible Sentencing Trust says “It is outrageous that he was allowed into our country in the first place, we have very clear rules that an immigrant must be of "good character" and provide Police certificates from their country of citizenship and from countries they have lived in. There have been multiple victims since we took him under refuge 14 years ago, these crimes were preventable"

Farah's family says that he suffered serious head injuries in a shipwreck and began to demonstrate abnormal sexual and psychotic behavior. "Surely that even if this behavior wasn't reported upon entry it would have been noted during the integration procedures" Walker says.

The SST believe that Judge Ian Mill did the best he could under the circumstances, by detaining him in a secure forensic setting as a special patient, rather than making an order for compulsory treatment that would likely result in him re-entering the community. Walker claims "It's up to the Government now, Immigration can't legally deport him, BUT a Refugee Officer can cancel an Immigration status if a particularly serious crime is committed, perhaps they should ask the woman he raped just how serious this crime is!"

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