A repeat sex offender from New Zealand who abused the young daughters of a woman he met through an internet dating site has been deported from the Philippines.
David Stanley Tranter, 59, who has a string of sex convictions, has been wanted since 2007, when he was freed from prison and placed on extended supervision orders for up to 10 years.
He was arrested in Santos City on June 5 last year after being found by the Social Welfare and Development Department. Tranter was then held at a detention centre.
He was unable to produce his passport which resulted in him being charged with immigration law violations.
In expelling Tranter, the Philippines' Immigration Bureau said his presence in the country posed a threat to national security and public safety, The Manila Bulletin newspaper reported.
Tranter, who was deported to Auckland last week, was wanted for aggravated robbery, dishonesty and sexual assault of minors, the newspaper said.
"This, to our mind, is very alarming as these cases involved moral turpitude," an official said.
Tranter was jailed for three years for the indecent assaults in 2000 of two girls, aged 11 and 13, after beginning a relationship with their mother through an internet dating agency.
At sentencing, the court was told he had a previous child-sex conviction in 1968.
Just six weeks after being freed from that jail term, in March 2003, he attacked a 16-year-old girl on a Christchurch street in what the court called a violent sexual assault.
In 2004 he appealed against his three-year sentence, but the Court of Appeal instead increased his sentence to four years.
In 2006 the Parole Board was told he was a high risk for reoffending and he served his full term. He was freed in March 2007. Five months after his release he fled the country.
Police issued a warrant for his arrest in August 2007 for breaching his parole and supervision order.
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