https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/36091 ... sex-crimes
Tuesday morning started bang on 8.30am with a class on sexual sadism taught by Detective Superintendent Greg Williams titled “catching the great white”.
“The reality is you’re pretty much up against a monster. They are masters in manipulation,” he told the room of 24 detectives.
When he asked who had encountered psychopaths, a few hands went up.
“They all look like we look, there’s a variety of psychopaths operating - some of them get into politics,” he joked.
It clearly wasn't a joke.
Williams then moved from theory to a case. He changed slides to show a mug shot of someone who a detective in the class said had “dead eyes”.
“This is the full-blown sexual sadist,” said Williams. “He was born this way and starts to offend early on.”
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A detective who worked on the case and presented after Williams, who we have not named to avoid identifying the case, was unsparing about her mistakes.
“I was stupid.”
She described a moment she still carries: she called one of the sadist’s victims and left a voicemail saying she was getting in touch about the man who’d harmed her. It was retraumatising for her.
“I had caused that trauma. So the lesson for me, and I hope for you, is to think about the approach.”
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Sex offenders often had common traits: being abused themselves as children, deviant sexual interests and increasingly-brutal crimes to gratify their needs, Brooks said. “It’s not just about sex, there’s something else to it that’s driving them.”
