A warning - some of the details in this article may be upsetting for some readers.
A young victim of Waikato paedophile Gregory van de Worp, sentenced for sexually assaulting a new group of children, questions why victims would come forward when abusers are able to have "a holiday at home while we have to suffer for the rest of our life".
The girl, now 13, attended Pūkete Neighbourhood House after-school programmes in Hamilton as a five- and six-year-old, where van de Worp was employed.
She is among seven victims van de Worp is accused of indecently assaulting during his time at the centre from 2012 to 2018.
"I always remember Greg singing this song called 'Singing in the Shower'. I remember one time he brought me and my best friend in, and he did it to my best friend and made me watch until he was going to do it to me," the victim told Newshub.
"It's sick and sinister. It's something that shouldn't happen to a six-year-old," said the girl's father.
Van de Worp, 39, was sentenced to 10 months home detention in the Hamilton District Court in October, in relation to crimes against four youngsters.
He had already been sentenced to 16 months jail in 2018 when a teacher caught him touching a young victim's genitals through their clothing.
Two other victims came forward in 2021, and he was handed down another six-month sentence of home detention.
Another girl, who was just six when van de Worp abused her, came forward to police in January this year.
That prompted officers to question him on whether he had any more victims.
He gave up three more names.
"Around this time our daughter was crying a lot in her room, police approached us and said he'd given up her name," said the 13-year-old victim's father.
"The fact he remembered her name after all those years - it was scary."
During sentencing, van de Worp was handed down eight charges.
Judge Brett Crowley said: "Offending of this nature is so wicked because they are children who do not understand the gravity and enormity of the offending against them."
He said the "difficulty and the unusual aspect" is the 39-year-old had already been sentenced twice for similar offending.
The prosecutor urged Judge Crowley to sentence van de Worp "on these grave matters as though they were standalone".
Crowley said he "has not agonised over a sentencing matter this much in my time as a judge".
He had to consider whether to put previous offending aside and sentence only on the offending before him, or to use the totality principle and consider van de Worp's past sentences and the "progress" he's made.
The judge adopted the totality principle in sentencing the former after-school carer to 10 months home detention.
"It seems to me you are trying to live a positive life, having had the benefit of rehabilitation, and are well regarded by your employer as a simple hardworking person," the judge said.
He's among the 47 percent of all convicted sex offenders this year serving time in the community.
But that doesn't sit well with van de Worp's victims and their families.
"How are kids supposed to feel safe? It's not good enough," the Waikato teen's father told Newshub.
He also urged the incoming Government to bring in tougher sentencing for sexual violence.
"We've got a new prime minister of New Zealand and if this doesn't change I'm going to be knocking on the door.
"I don't want any kids to get hurt again and I will fight for them all the way until the laws are changed."
