A serial child rapist who has been released into the community will remain subject to an Extended Supervision Order (ESO) until at least 2027. A New Zealand Court of Appeal determined that Dundein sex offender Pierre John Parsons, 47, continues to pose a risk of further sex crimes, as evidenced by his lengthy history of sexualizing children.
Parsons, who now identifies as a “woman,” was jailed for three years and 11 months in 1995 for abducting and raping a 12-year-old girl. During the violent abduction, Parsons tied a rope around the girl’s neck after entering the restrooms of a sporting facility. He then dragged the child down a hallway into a changing room where he undressed ad raped her while she was unconscious. Parsons, who was 18 years old at the time, would later admit to stealing the girl’s clothing for erotic crossdressing purposes.
While incarcerated, Parsons admitted to molesting a 4-year-old child and raping a disabled teenager during therapy sessions. However, the police did not pursue an investigation or charges for the incidents.
Parsons has been subject to an ESO, a form of community-based monitoring program, since his conviction in 1995, but has breached the supervision order on several occasions.
Two years after being released from prison on parole in 2003, Parsons was returned to prison after staff at the supervised facility where he was staying found pictures of children in his room. Parsons had also breached the ESO by inviting a prostitute to the care facility.
The following year, in 2006, a decade-long ESO was imposed on Parsons. After the term expired, it was renewed again in 2017. Justice Gerald Nation, who made the decision to extend the supervision order, told the court, “He wants to be living as a woman… in a relationship with a woman who accepts him as transgender.”
Justice Nation also stated, “I am satisfied Mr. Parsons has demonstrated an intense drive, desire or urge to commit ‘relevant sexual offences’, namely sexual offences against a child or young person. There is also evidence that Mr Parsons has an ongoing predilection or proclivity for behaviour which could result in serious sexual offending.”
The judge added that he believed Parsons poses a high risk of reoffending on occasions when he feels that his sexual and crossdressing wishes are being thwarted.
Yet while being monitored under the supervision order, Parsons on at least two occasions approached young girls. In December 2015 the serial sex offender deviated from his typical route to work in order to interact with a 15 year-old girl in a school uniform. He repeated this predatory behavior in May 2016, giving a teen girl his phone number and requesting that she procure feminine underwear for him.
In 2020, Parsons was again sent back to prison after it was discovered that he had made internet searches for illicit sexual material, including one search for a “10-year-old girl and 20-year-old man,” and another seeking pornographic content of schoolgirls. Upon examination of his phone, police found a video of an adult performing oral sex on a toddler. On October 15, he pleaded guilty to possessing an objectionable publication.
Presiding Judge Michael Crosbie called Parsons’ sexual behavior “vile and degrading” and highlighted the harms done to the child seen in the pornographic video.
“Your possession of this video amounts to sexual exploitation of a child – a child of incredibly young and tender years,” he said. Parsons’ defense council argued that he was struggling to answer questions about his sexual arousal.
It is unclear when Parsons began claiming to identify as transgender, but news articles appear to place the time at about 2017.
During court proceedings which saw the ESO placed on him extended, Parsons expressed his desire to start medically ‘transitioning’ and said he wanted to be supported by the state in the process. Recent reports now refer to Parsons as “female” and utilize feminine pronouns for the convicted pedophile.