53-year-old Geoffery Miller was sentenced in the Whangārei District Court to nine years and seven months’ imprisonment after being found guilty of 12 historical sexual offending charges against two child victims in separate decades.
The first victim, abused from when Miller himself was 14, endured repeated rape (including one incident after being plied with alcohol until unconscious) and violation with objects.
Decades later, hearing Miller boast in her kitchen that he was “really proud” of his life finally gave her the courage to report him, unleashing years of suppressed trauma.
A second victim was groomed with cannabis and methamphetamine, which Miller supplied and used as payment for sexual acts.
Both women, now adults, confronted him in court with harrowing victim impact statements detailing lifelong PTSD, depression, substance abuse, and feelings of worthlessness caused by his actions.
Despite Miller’s continued complete denial of any wrongdoing the court highlighted the premeditated, violent, and intrusive nature of the offending—aggravated by drug supply to facilitate abuse—and imposed a five-year-seven-month term for the rape of the first victim plus a cumulative four years for crimes against the second.
Well done those women who faced him in court and well done to the judge.