Disgraced basketballer Tiny Pinder sentenced to eight years' prison over violent sexual assaults
Disgraced basketballer Tiny Pinder sentenced to eight years' jail, visa cancelled over sexual assaults
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-21/disgraced-basketballer-tiny-pinder-sentenced-to-eight-years-jail/103613038
Former NBL player Tiny Pinder is sentenced to eight years' jail and will likely be deported over two violent sexual assaults.
Serial rapist given reduced sentence for having the cognitive level of a 14 year old boy. He has been a known rapist for decades but they will still let him out to do it again.
From wikipedia:
In 1976, Pinder was found guilty of unlawful carnal knowledge of a teenage girl in Miami, Florida. He was given five years probation.[21][22]
In 1992, Pinder faced charges of attempted sexual assault. He was convicted by the Western Australian Supreme Court and was sentenced to 18 months' jail.[23][24] In the following year he was also found guilty of raping a 23-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl; the three offences had occurred between 1988 and 1990.[21] In 1996, he was sentenced to five years' jail for sexual offences involving a 15-year-old girl.[25][26] In 2001, he was acquitted in the New South Wales District Court on a charge of raping a 19-year-old woman the previous year.[27] In 2013, he was arrested on a charge relating to an alleged rape in 1987. He was cleared in August 2016.[28]
In 2021, Pinder was arrested and charged with stalking a woman in Sydney. He was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment.[29] In April 2023, he pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault that occurred in November 2009 and March 2021.[21] In March 2024, he was sentenced to eight years prison for the two assaults.[20]
Pinder was assaulted in prison in 2021 and 2023, requiring him to undergo CT and MRI scans for his injuries.